Numbers 31:50

"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."

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From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The “chains” were “armlets”2 Samuel 1:10. The “rings” were “finger-rings,” or “seal-rings;” and the “tablets” were worn suspended from the neckExodus 35:22. To make an atonement for our souls before the Lord -CompareExodus 30:11-16. The atonement was not for any special offence committed (which would have called for a sacrifice of blood-shedding), but rather like the half-shekel given at the census in the Book of Exodus (loc. cite), was an acknowledgment of having received undeserved mercies. These, if unacknowledged, would have entailed guilt on the soul.

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