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Numbers 31:49-51
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Numbers 31:49-51
New English Translation
49 and said to him,[a] “Your servants have taken a count[b] of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority,[c] and not one is missing. 50 So we have brought as an offering for the Lord what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves[d] before the Lord.”[e] 51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all of it in the form of ornaments.
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- Numbers 31:49 tn Heb “to Moses”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- Numbers 31:49 tn Heb “lifted up the head.”
- Numbers 31:49 tn Heb “in our hand.”
- Numbers 31:50 tn Heb “our souls.”
- Numbers 31:50 sn The expression here may include the idea of finding protection from divine wrath, which is so common to Leviticus, but it may also be a thank offering for the fact that their lives had been spared.
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