Numbers 31:13

13 Moshe, El'azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.

Numbers 31:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:13

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 Genesis 14:18 ) .

Numbers 31:13 In-Context

11 They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured,

12 and brought the captives, booty and spoil to Moshe, El'azar the cohen and the community of Isra'el in the camp on the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden across from Yericho.

13 Moshe, El'azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.

14 But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.

15 Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?