Numbers 31 · Verse 13

Numbers 31:13

And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Numbers 31:13, King James Version

Numbers 31:13 in other translations

BSBAnd Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
WEBMoses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
ASVAnd Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
YLTAnd Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,
DARBYAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly went forth to meet them outside the camp.
BBEThen Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle.
WebsterAnd Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

What does Numbers 31:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. Moses, and Eleazar the priest, ... went forth to meet them without the camp--partly as a token of respect and congratulation on their victory, partly to see how they had executed the Lord's commands, and partly to prevent the defilement of the camp by the entrance of warriors stained with blood.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 31:13-18
The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty. This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the worst criminals. The female children were spared, who, being brought up among the Israelites, would not tempt them to idolatry. The whole history shows the hatefulness of sin, and the guilt of tempting others; it teaches us to avoid all occasions of evil, and to give no quarter to inward lusts. The women and children were not kept for sinful purposes, but for slaves, a custom every where practised in former times, as to captives. In the course of providence, when famine and plagues visit a nation for sin, children suffer in the common calamity. In this case parents are punished in their children; and for children dying before actual sin, full provision is made as to their eternal happiness, by the mercy of God in Christ.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Numbers 31:13 in the original Hebrew

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וַיֵּ֨צְא֜וּvai.Ye.tze.'Uand they went outH3318
מֹשֶׁ֨הmo.ShehMosesH4872
וְאֶלְעָזָ֧רve.'el.'a.Zarand EleazarH499
הַכֹּהֵ֛ןha.ko.Henthe priestH3548
וְכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
נְשִׂיאֵ֥יne.si.'Ei[the] leaders ofH5387
הָעֵדָ֖הha.'e.Dahthe congregationH5712
לִקְרָאתָ֑םlik.ra.Tamto meet themH7122
אֶל\־'el-toH413
מִח֖וּץmi.Chutzfrom [the] outsideH2351
לַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה\׃La.ma.cha.Nehof the campH4264

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 31:13

  • Numbers 31:12

    And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.

  • Genesis 14:17

    And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.

  • 1 Samuel 15:12

    And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

  • 1 Samuel 30:21

    And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

  • Numbers 31:22-24

    Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

  • Numbers 19:11

    He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

  • Numbers 5:2

    Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
went forth.
Ge 14:17; 1Sa 15:12; 30:21
without the camp.
12,22-24; 5:2; 19:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Numbers 31:12

    And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.

  • Numbers 31:13

    And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

  • Numbers 31:14

    And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.

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Numbers 31:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y salieron Moisés y Eleazar el sacerdote, y todos los príncipes de la congregación, á recibirlos fuera del campo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Moïse et Éléazar, le sacrificateur, et tous les princes de l’assemblée, sortirent à leur rencontre, hors du camp.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Mose und Eleasar, der Priester, und alle Fürsten der Gemeinde gingen ihnen entgegen außerhalb des Lagers.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Egressi sunt autem Moyses et Eleazar sacerdos, et omnes principes synagogæ, in occursum eorum extra castra.