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Numbers 31:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Numbers 31:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 31
Israel Battles the Midianites.[a] 1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Take vengeance upon the Midianites for the people of Israel. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
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- Numbers 31:1 The story of God’s judgment on the Midianites certainly exaggerates some incidents in the campaign in the Transjordan. The massacre does not spare even the women: the prostitution of the sons of Israel at Baal of Peor (ch. 25) has left a humiliating memory. We must not apply the standard of our gospel morality to these practices of a remote age.
