And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Parallel translations
- WEB Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
- BSB And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
- NKJV And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp.
- NASB And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.
- NLT Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
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Quick answer
Moses, Eleazar, and the leaders went out to meet the returning army.
Overview
Israel's civil and priestly leadership came to receive the soldiers, signaling the importance of the event. Their presence prepared the way for the instructions on purification and inspection of the plunder. It shows the ordered oversight God established for His people in matters of war and worship.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Num 5:2Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
- 1 Sam 15:12And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
- Num 31:12And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
- 1 Sam 30:21And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
- Num 19:11He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
- Gen 14:17And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
- Num 31:22–24Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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