Numbers 31:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

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  • Josh 22:8 : 8 And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.
  • 1 Sam 30:4 : 4 Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.
  • 1 Sam 30:24-25 : 24 Who is going to give any attention to you in this question? for an equal part will be given to him who went to the fight and to him who was waiting by the goods: they are all to have the same. 25 And so he made it a rule and an order for Israel from that day till now.
  • Ps 68:12 : 12 Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.

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  • Num 31:25-26
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    25And the Lord said to Moses,

    26Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:

  • Num 31:28-30
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    28And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:

    29Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.

    30And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.

  • Num 31:40-44
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    40And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.

    41And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

    42And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

    43(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

    44And thirty-six thousand oxen,

  • Num 31:53-54
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    53(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)

    54Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.

  • Num 31:11-12
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    11They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

    12And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

  • Num 31:32-33
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    32Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

    33And seventy-two thousand oxen,

  • Num 31:46-47
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    46And sixteen thousand persons;)

    47Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • 1 Sam 30:24
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    24Who is going to give any attention to you in this question? for an equal part will be given to him who went to the fight and to him who was waiting by the goods: they are all to have the same.

  • Num 31:36-37
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    36And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

    37Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

  • Num 31:2-5
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    2Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

    3So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

    4From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.

    5So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.

  • 2 Chr 28:14
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    14So the armed men gave up the prisoners and the goods they had taken to the heads and the meeting of the people.

  • Num 7:5
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    5Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work.

  • Deut 20:14
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    14But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

  • Deut 3:7
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    7But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.

  • Num 34:18
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    18And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.

  • Num 26:2
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    2Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.

  • Josh 22:8
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    8And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

  • Deut 2:35
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    35Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

  • Num 34:29
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    29These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 31:9
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    9The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

  • Deut 21:10
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    10When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

  • Num 31:21
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    21Then 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:

  • Exod 32:27
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    27And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour.

  • Num 1:3
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    3All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.

  • 2 Chr 31:19
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    19And as for the sons of Aaron, the priests, living in the country on the outskirts of their towns, every different town there were men, marked out by name, to give their part of the goods to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed among the Levites.

  • Num 32:27
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    27But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.

  • 1 Chr 26:27
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    27From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord.

  • Josh 18:5-6
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    5And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.

    6And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.

  • Deut 29:8
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    8And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.

  • Ezek 47:21
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    21You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe.

  • Num 18:31
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    31It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.

  • Num 32:20-21
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    20Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

    21Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

  • Josh 8:27
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    27But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.