‘When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, each of the men must pay a ransom for his life to the Lord as they are registered. Then no plague will come on them as they are registered.
Numbers 31:49 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised and told him, ‘Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They told [him], Your servants have counted the warriors under our command, and not one man of us is missing. American Standard Version (1901) and they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. Common English Bible and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the warriors in our charge and not one of us is missing. Catholic Public Domain Version "We, your servants, have taken a census of the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and indeed not one was lacking. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We, thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting. |
‘When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, each of the men must pay a ransom for his life to the Lord as they are registered. Then no plague will come on them as they are registered.
The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, approached Moses
So we have presented to the Lord an offering of the gold articles each man found #– #armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces #– #to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.’
This was to fulfil the words he had said: ‘I have not lost one of those you have given me.’