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Numbers 31:41

Moses gave the levy which was the LORD'S offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Offerings;   Servant;   Spoils;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Heave-Offering;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Spoil;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Booty;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Beeves,;   Eleazar ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Booty;   Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tribute;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave-offering, to El`azar the Kohen, as the LORD commanded Moshe.
King James Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord 'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Lexham English Bible
And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.
English Standard Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the Lord , to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
New Century Version
Moses gave the Lord 's share to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded him.
New English Translation
So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord 's raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
New American Standard Bible
And Moses gave the tribute tax, which was the LORD'S offering, to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses gaue the tribute of the Lordes offring vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses gave the levy, which was the contribution to Yahweh, to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe gave the tribute set apart for Adonai to El‘azar the cohen, as Adonai had ordered Moshe.
Darby Translation
And Moses gave the tribute of Jehovah's heave-offering to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses gave all these gifts for the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded him.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORDS gift offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Good News Translation
So Moses gave Eleazar the tax as a special contribution to the Lord , as the Lord had commanded.
Christian Standard Bible®
Moses gave the tribute to the priest Eleazar as a contribution for the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Literal Translation
And Moses gave the tribute, the heave offering of Jehovah, to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses gaue this heueofferynge of the LORDE vnto Eleasar the prest, as the LORDE commaunded him.
American Standard Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was Jehovah's heave-offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses gaue the tribute, which was the Lordes heaue offeryng, vnto Eleazar the priest, as the Lorde commaunded Moyses:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses gave the tribute, which was set apart for the LORD, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses gaue the tribute which was the Lords heaue offering, vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses gave the tribute to the Lord, the heave-offering of God, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses;
English Revised Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Berean Standard Bible
Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises bitook the noumbre of the firste fruytis of the Lord to Eleazar, preest, as it was comaundid to hym,
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses giveth the tribute -- Jehovah's heave-offering -- to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
Update Bible Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD'S heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
World English Bible
Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
New King James Version
So Moses gave the tribute which was the LORD's heave offering to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
New Living Translation
Moses gave all the Lord 's share to Eleazar the priest, just as the Lord had directed him.
New Life Bible
Moses gave the tax, which was the Lord's gift, to Eleazar the religious leader, just as the Lord had told Moses.
New Revised Standard
Moses gave the tribute, the offering for the Lord , to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses gave the tribute - the heave-offering of Yahweh, unto Eleazar the priest, - As Yahweh commanded Moses.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,
Revised Standard Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the offering for the LORD, to Elea'zar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
THE MESSAGE
Moses turned the tax over to Eleazar the priest as God 's part, following God 's instructions to Moses.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses gave the levy which was the LORD'S offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Contextual Overview

25Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 26"You and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the fathers' households of the congregation are to take a count of the spoil of war that was captured, both people and livestock. 27"Divide the spoil into two [equal] parts between those who were involved in the war, that is, those who went out to battle and all [the rest of] the congregation. 28"Levy a tax for the LORD from the warriors who went to battle, one in five hundred of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, and the flocks. 29"Take this tribute from the warriors' half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD. 30"From the Israelites' half [of the spoil] you shall take one out of every fifty of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, the flocks, and of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who are in charge of the tabernacle of the LORD." 31Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 32The plunder that remained from the spoil of war which the warriors had taken, was 675,000 sheep, 33and 72,000 cattle, 34and 61,000 donkeys,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Eleazar: Numbers 31:29-31, Numbers 18:8, Numbers 18:19, Matthew 10:10, 1 Corinthians 9:10-14, Galatians 6:6, 1 Timothy 5:17, Hebrews 7:4-6, Hebrews 7:9-12

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:28 - is an heave Leviticus 7:14 - an heave

Cross-References

Genesis 31:7
"Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me.
Genesis 31:18
and he drove away all his livestock and [took along] all his property which he had acquired, the livestock he had obtained and accumulated in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31:30
"Now [I suppose] you felt you must go because you were homesick for your father's house and family; but why did you steal my [household] gods?"
Genesis 31:33
So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he came out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.
Genesis 31:38
"These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not lost their young, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.
Genesis 31:40
"This was my situation: by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the [remarkable] grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not without effect. In fact, I worked harder than all of the apostles, though it was not I, but the grace of God [His unmerited favor and blessing which was] with me.
2 Corinthians 11:26
many times on journeys, [exposed to] danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own countrymen, danger from the Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger on the sea, danger among those posing as believers;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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