Numbers 31:21

Then Eleazar said to the soldiers who had returned from the battle, “This is what Yahweh has instructed Moses:

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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;

In Context

20You must also wash your clothes and anything that you took to the battle that is made of leather or goat’s hair or wood.”

22You must put into a fire any gold or silver or bronze or iron or tin or lead things that you brought back from the battle.

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Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:14-25

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 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. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the… Read the whole commentary →

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