Numbers 31:1

JPS Old Testament

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Lexham English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord spoke to Moses and said,

New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses:

Amplified Bible
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said to Moses,

Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: ii) Adonai said to Moshe,

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord spoke to Moses and said,

George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Good News Translation
The Lord said to Moses,

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses,

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses, & sayde:

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to Moses,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD said to Moses,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moyses, and seide,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

New King James Version
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Moses,

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses,

New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses,

THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "Avenge the People of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you will go to be with your dead ancestors."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ² 'Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.' ³ And Moses spoke unto the people, saying: 'Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD'S vengeance on Midian. ⁴ Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.' ⁵ So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. ⁶ And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Numbers 10:31 - forasmuch 1 Kings 8:44 - whithersoever

Cross-References

Genesis 31:3
And the LORD said unto Jacob: 'Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.'

Genesis 31:4
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

Genesis 31:5
and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.

Genesis 31:8
If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked.

Genesis 31:9
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Genesis 31:16
For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'

Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;

Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.'

Genesis 31:25
And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.

Genesis 45:13
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall hasten and bring down my father hither.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... After the plague upon Israel for their fornication and idolatry, into which they were drawn by the daughters of Moab and Midian, and after the sum of the people was taken in the plains of Moab, and various laws given or repeated, and a little before the death of Moses:

saying; as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXI

The command of the Lord to make war on the Midianites, 1, 2.

One thousand men are chosen out of each of the twelve tribes,

and sent with Phinehas against the Midianites, 3-6.

They slay all the males, 7;

their five kings and Balaam, 8.

They take all the women captives, with the flocks and goods, 9;

burn their cities, and bring away the spoil, 10,11.

They bring the captives, c., to Moses, who is wroth with the

officers for sparing the women, who had formerly been the cause

of their transgression and punishment, 12-16.

He commands all the male children and all the grown up females

to be slain, 17, 18.

How the soldiers were to purify themselves, 19, 20

and the different articles taken in war, 21-24.

They are commanded to take the sum of the prey, to divide it

into two parts; one for the 12,000 warriors, and the other for

the rest of the congregation, 25-27.

One of 500, both of persons and cattle, of the share of the

warriors, to be given to the Lord, 28, 29;

and one part of fifty, of the people's share, to be given to the

Levites, 30.

The sum of the prey remaining after the above division; sheep

675,000, beeves 72,000, asses 61,000, young women 32,000,

ver. 31-35.

How the soldiers' part was divided, 36-40.

How the part belonging to the congregation was divided, 41-47.

The officers report that they had not lost a man in this war,

48, 49.

They bring a voluntary oblation to God, of gold and ornaments,

50, 51;

the amount of which was 16,750 shekels, 52, 53.

Moses and Eleazar bring the gold into the tabernacle for a

memorial, 54.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXI