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THE MESSAGE
Numbers 31:1
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- CondensedParallel Translations
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord spoke to Moses and said,
The Lord spoke to Moses:
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord said to Moses,
(LY: ii) Adonai said to Moshe,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord spoke to Moses and said,
AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord spoke to Moses,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses, & sayde:
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Then the Lord said to Moses,
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And the LORD said to Moses,
And the Lord spak to Moyses, and seide,
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Then the Lord said to Moses,
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
The LORD said to Moses,
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Numbers 10:31 - forasmuch 1 Kings 8:44 - whithersoever
Cross-References
That's when God said to Jacob, "Go back home where you were born. I'll go with you."
So Jacob sent word for Rachel and Leah to meet him out in the field where his flocks were. He said, "I notice that your father has changed toward me; he doesn't treat me the same as before. But the God of my father hasn't changed; he's still with me. You know how hard I've worked for your father. Still, your father has cheated me over and over, changing my wages time and again. But God never let him really hurt me. If he said, ‘Your wages will consist of speckled animals' the whole flock would start having speckled lambs and kids. And if he said, ‘From now on your wages will be streaked animals' the whole flock would have streaked ones. Over and over God used your father's livestock to reward me.
Jacob did it. He put his children and his wives on camels and gathered all his livestock and everything he had gotten, everything acquired in Paddan Aram, to go back home to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
When Laban reached him, Jacob's tents were pitched in the Gilead mountains; Laban pitched his tents there, too.
"Didn't those who worked for me say, ‘He fed us well. There were always second helpings'? And no stranger ever had to spend a night in the street; my doors were always open to travelers. Did I hide my sin the way Adam did, or conceal my guilt behind closed doors Because I was afraid what people would say, fearing the gossip of the neighbors so much That I turned myself into a recluse? You know good and well that I didn't.
I find myself in a pride of lions who are wild for a taste of human flesh; Their teeth are lances and arrows, their tongues are sharp daggers.
A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones.
We're blasted by anger and swamped by rage, but who can survive jealousy?
Then I observed all the work and ambition motivated by envy. What a waste! Smoke. And spitting into the wind.
God 's Message: "Don't let the wise brag of their wisdom. Don't let heroes brag of their exploits. Don't let the rich brag of their riches. If you brag, brag of this and this only: That you understand and know me. I'm God , and I act in loyal love. I do what's right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things. These are my trademarks." God 's Decree.
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
