'Took' in the Bible

So Moses and Aaron took these men who were designated by name,

So Moses took the ransom (redemption) money from those who were in excess, beyond those ransomed by the Levites;

from the firstborn of the Israelites he took the money in terms of the sanctuary shekel, 1,365 shekels.

So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

and the Israelites set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud [of the Lord’s guiding presence] settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took some of the Spirit who was upon Moses and put Him upon the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied [praising God and declaring His will], but they did not do it again.

Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, descendants of Reuben, took action,

So they each took his own censer and put fire on it and laid incense on it; and they stood at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), with Moses and Aaron.

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the Levites who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out [into broad sheets] as a plating for the [bronze] altar [of burnt offering],

So Aaron took the burning censer as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague had [already] begun among the people; and he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.

Moses brought out all the rods from the presence of Lord to all the Israelites; and they looked, and each man took his rod.

So Moses took the rod from before the Lord, just as He had commanded him;

When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negev (the South country) heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim [the route traveled by the spies sent out by Moses], he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.

Israel took all these cities, and settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its towns.

Now Moses sent men to spy out Jazer, and they overthrew its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Then it came about in the morning that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal; from there he saw a portion of the Israelites.

Balaam took up his [first] discourse (oracle) and said:“Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram (Syria),from the mountains of the east, [saying,]‘Come, curse [the descendants of] Jacob for me;And come, [violently] denounce Israel.’

So he took Balaam to the field of Zophim to the top of [Mount] Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Balaam took up his [second] discourse (oracle) and said:“Rise up, O Balak, and hear;Listen [closely] to me, son of Zippor.

He took up his [third] discourse (oracle) and said:“The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened [at last, to see clearly the purpose and will of God],

He took up his [fourth] discourse (oracle) and said:“The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,The oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

Balaam looked at Amalek and took up his [fifth] discourse (oracle) and said:“Amalek was the first of the [neighboring] nations [to oppose the Israelites after they left Egypt],But his end shall be destruction.”

And Balaam looked at the Kenites and took up his [sixth] discourse (oracle) and said:“Strong is your dwelling place,And you set your nest in the cliff.

Then he took up his [seventh] discourse (oracle) and said:“Alas, who can live unless God has ordained it?

When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he left the congregation and took a spear in his hand,

Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation,

The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their children; and all their cattle, all their livestock, and all their property they took as spoil [of war].

They took all the plunder and all the spoils of war, both people and livestock.

The plunder that remained from the spoil of war which the warriors had taken, was 675,000 sheep,

and from the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty, both of persons and animals, and gave them to the Levites, who were in charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all the handmade articles.

The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and drove out the Amorites who were in it.

[The sons of] Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns (tent villages) and called them Havvoth-jair.

Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah after his own name.