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Numbers 31:10-12
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Numbers 31:10-12
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10 They burned[a] all their towns[b] where they lived and all their encampments. 11 They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals. 12 They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the rift valley plains[c] of Moab, along the Jordan River[d] across from Jericho.[e]
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- Numbers 31:10 tn Heb “burned with fire.”
- Numbers 31:10 tn The ban applied to the encampments and forts of this group of Midianite tribes living in the region of Moab.
- Numbers 31:12 sn This is the area of the rift valley basin to the north of the Dead Sea and east of the Jordan. See the note at Num 21:1.
- Numbers 31:12 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
- Numbers 31:12 tn Again this expression, “the Jordan of Jericho,” is used. It describes the intended location along the Jordan River, the Jordan next to or across from Jericho.
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