Numbers 31:13
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New International Version (©2011)
Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.

NET Bible (©2006)
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Moses, the priest Eleazar, and all the leaders of the community went outside the camp to meet them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp.

American King James Version
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the synagogue went forth to meet them without the camp.

Darby Bible Translation
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly went forth to meet them outside the camp.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

World English Bible
Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:13-18 The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty. This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the worst criminals. The female children were spared, who, being brought up among the Israelites, would not tempt them to idolatry. The whole history shows the hatefulness of sin, and the guilt of tempting others; it teaches us to avoid all occasions of evil, and to give no quarter to inward lusts. The women and children were not kept for sinful purposes, but for slaves, a custom every where practised in former times, as to captives. In the course of providence, when famine and plagues visit a nation for sin, children suffer in the common calamity. In this case parents are punished in their children; and for children dying before actual sin, full provision is made as to their eternal happiness, by the mercy of God in Christ.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13. Moses, and Eleazar the priest, … went forth to meet them without the camp—partly as a token of respect and congratulation on their victory, partly to see how they had executed the Lord's commands, and partly to prevent the defilement of the camp by the entrance of warriors stained with blood.

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Vengeance on Midian
…12And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho. 13And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. …

Leviticus 4:22 "'When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, when he realizes his guilt
Numbers 31:12 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.
Numbers 31:14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army--the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds--who returned from the battle.