Numbers 31:13

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

Numbers 31:13 in Other Translations

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

13 Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

13 Moses, Eleazar, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet the returning army outside the camp.

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

Numbers 31:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:13

And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
congregation
Attended, no doubt, with a proper retinue:

went forth to meet them without the camp;
partly to do honour to them, and to congratulate them on their victory, and partly to hinder them going into the camp directly, until they were purified; see ( Genesis 14:17 Genesis 14:18 ) .

Numbers 31:13 In-Context

11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals,

12 and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.

15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.