Numbers 31:49
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New International Version (©2011)
and said to him, "Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.

New Living Translation (©2007)
and said, "We, your servants, have accounted for all the men who went out to battle under our command; not one of us is missing!

English Standard Version (©2001)
and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and told him, "Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and told him, "Your servants took a count of the soldiers who were under our authority. We didn't miss a single man.

NET Bible (©2006)
and said to him, "Your servants have taken a count of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, and not one is missing.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They said to him, "Sir, we have counted all the soldiers under our command, and not one of them is missing.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they said unto Moses, your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.

American King James Version
And they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
and they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who were under our hand, and there is not one man of us lacking.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.

World English Bible
and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

Young's Literal Translation
and they say unto Moses, 'Thy servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who are with us, and not a man of us hath been missed;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:48-54 The success of the Israelites had been very remarkable, so small a company overcoming such multitudes, but it was still more wonderful that not one was slain or missing. They presented the gold they found among the spoils, as an offering to the Lord. Thus they confessed, that instead of claiming a reward for their service, they needed forgiveness of much that had been amiss, and desired to be thankful for the preservation of their lives, which might justly have been taken away.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 49. - There lacketh not one man of us. The officers naturally regarded this as a very wonderful circumstance; and so indeed it was, whether Midian made any resistance or not. It was, however, in strict keeping with the promises of that temporal dispensation. It would have been no satisfaction to the Israelite who fell upon the threshold of the promised land to know that victory remained with his comrades. His was not the courage of modern soldiers, who fling away their lives in blind confidence that some advantage will accrue thereby to the army at large; rather, he fought under the conviction that to each, as well as to all, life and victory were pledged upon condition of obedience and courage. In this case no one was found unfaithful, and therefore no one was allowed to fall.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they said unto Moses,.... Gave the following relation to him, which is a very surprising one:

thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge; since the war with Midian was over, they had mustered the several companies under their command, such as had thousands, and those that had hundreds:

and there lacketh not one man of us; which is a most amazing and unheard of thing, that in waging war with a whole nation, slaying all their males, sacking and burning so many cities, plundering the inhabitants of their substance, taking and carrying off such a vast number of captives, yet not one should fall by the sword of the enemy, or by any disease or accident whatever, but all to a man should return to the camp of Israel again; this is not to be paralleled in any history.

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The Voluntary Offering
48And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near to Moses: 49And they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us. 50We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD. …

Numbers 31:48 Then the officers who were over the units of the army--the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds--went to Moses
Numbers 31:50 So we have brought as an offering to the LORD the gold articles each of us acquired--armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces--to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD."