Numbers 31:11
And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken both of men and of beasts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et tulerunt prædam, et universa quæ ceperant tam ex hominibus quam ex jumentis,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔλαβον πᾶσαν τὴν προνομὴν καὶ πάντα τὰ σκῦλα αὐτῶν, ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου ἕως κτήνους·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת כָּל הַשָּׁלָ֔ל וְאֵ֖ת כָּל הַמַּלְק֑וֹחַ בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily XXIII
And wherefore names he not likewise the punishment for their idolatry? Either because it was clear and more notorious, or because the plague was not so great at that time, as in the matter of Balaam, when they joined themselves to Baalpeor, the Midianitish women appearing in the camp and alluring them to wantonness according to the counsel of Balaam. For that this evil counsel was Balaam’s Moses sheweth after this, in the following statement at the end of the Book of Numbers. ( Numb. xxxi. 8, 11, 15, 16 . in our translation.) “Balaam also the son of Beor they slew in the war of Midian with the sword and they brought the spoils.... And Moses was wroth, and said, Wherefore have ye saved all the women alive? For these were to the children of Israel for a stumbling-block, according to the word of Balaam, to cause them to depart from and despise the word of the Lord for Peor’s sake.”