Numbers 31:48-54

Voluntary Atonement Offering

Numbers 31:48-54

Voluntary Atonement Offering

48
The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.
49
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.​
50
We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.”​
51
Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.
52
All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
53
The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
54
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.​
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See also

Where else Scripture says this.

  • 1 Samuel 30:18

    David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
    from verse 49

  • 1 Samuel 30:19

    There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.
    from verse 49

  • John 18:9

    that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
    from verse 49

  • Psalms 72:14

    He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
    from verse 49

  • Deuteronomy 20:14

    but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
    from verse 53

  • Exodus 30:12

    “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.
    from verse 50

  • Exodus 30:16

    You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.”
    from verse 50

  • Exodus 30:15

    The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls.
    from verse 50

  • Zechariah 6:14

    The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the LORD’s temple.
    from verse 54

  • Leviticus 17:11

    For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
    from verse 50

  • Psalms 107:15

    Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!
    from verse 50

  • Psalms 107:21

    Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!
    from verse 50

Where this happens

Destruction of the Midianites
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