Numbers 31:21
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses;
Numbers 31:21 in other translations
| BSB | Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses: |
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| WEB | Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses. |
| ASV | And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war that went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses: |
| YLT | And Eleazar the priest saith unto the men of the host who go in to battle, ‘This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses: |
| DARBY | And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war that had gone to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses. |
| BBE | Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses: |
| Webster | And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; |
What does Numbers 31:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 31:19-24
19-24. abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person ... purify both yourselves and your captives--Though the Israelites had taken the field in obedience to the command of God, they had become defiled by contact with the dead. A process of purification was to be undergone, as the law required (Le 15:13; Nu 19:9-12), and this purifying ceremony was extended to dress, houses, tents, to everything…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 31:19-24
The Israelites had to purify themselves according to the law, and to abide without the camp seven days, though they had not contracted any moral guilt, the war being just and lawful, and commanded by God. Thus God would preserve in their minds a dread and detestation of shedding blood. The spoil had been used by Midianites, and being now come into the possession of Israelites, it was fit that it should be purified.
Numbers 31:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 31:21
- Numbers 30:16
These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.
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Context
- Numbers 31:20
And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
- Numbers 31:21
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses;
- Numbers 31:22
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Numbers 31:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y Eleazar el sacerdote dijo á los hombres de guerra que venían de la guerra: Esta es la ordenanza de la ley que Jehová ha mandado á Moisés: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Éléazar, le sacrificateur, dit aux hommes de l’armée, qui étaient allés à la guerre: C’est ici le statut de la loi que l’ Éternel a commandée à Moïse: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Eleasar, der Priester, sprach zu den Kriegsleuten, die in den Streit gezogen waren: Dies ist die Satzung des Gesetzes, das Jehova dem Mose geboten hat: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Eleazar quoque sacerdos ad viros exercitus, qui pugnaverunt, sic locutus est: Hoc est præceptum legis, quod mandavit Dominus Moysi: |