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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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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:49 tn Heb “to Moses”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  2. Numbers 31:49 tn Heb “lifted up the head.”
  3. Numbers 31:49 tn Heb “in our hand.”
  4. Numbers 31:50 tn Heb “our souls.”
  5. 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.

49 and said to him, “Your servants have counted(A) the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.(B) 50 So we have brought as an offering to the Lord the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves(C) before the Lord.”

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted from them the gold—all the crafted articles.

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