Numbers 31:13

Purification from war

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs of the community 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 spoils of war and the valuable property, both human and animal,

12 and they brought the captives, the valuable property, and the spoils of war to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite community, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

14 Moses became angry with the commanders of the army, the officers of thousands and the officers of hundreds, who came back from the battle.

15 Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?