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Numbers 31:47 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle, as the LORD commanded Moses. "

Numbers 31:47

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45 thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

46 and sixteen thousand persons),

47 even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle, as the LORD commanded Moses.

48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.

49 They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

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Numbers 31:1

"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"

Numbers 31:2

"“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”"

Numbers 31:3

"Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian."

Numbers 31:4

"You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”"

Numbers 31:5

"So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war."

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"Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand."

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