Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Vex the Midianites, and smite them;
WEB
“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.
YLT
`Distress the Midianites, and ye have smitten them,
DBT
Harass the Midianites, and smite them,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC