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Numbers 31:29

Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Offerings;   Priest;   Servant;   Spoils;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dedication;   Heave-Offerings;   Offerings;   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;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Booty;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Priest, High;   Slave;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Priestly Code;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
take it of their half, and give it to El`azar the Kohen, for the LORD's heave-offering.
King James Version
Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
take from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to Yahweh.
English Standard Version
Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the Lord .
New Century Version
Take it from the soldiers' half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as the Lord 's share.
New English Translation
You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord .
Amplified Bible
"Take this tribute from the warriors' half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yee shall take it of their halfe and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest, as an heaue offring of the Lorde.
Legacy Standard Bible
take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as a contribution to Yahweh.
Complete Jewish Bible
take it from their half and give it to El‘azar the cohen as a portion set apart for Adonai .
Darby Translation
Of their half shall ye take it, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for a heave-offering of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Take that share from the soldiers' half of the things they took in war. Then give these things to Eleazar the priest. That part will belong to the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
Good News Translation
Give them to Eleazar the priest as a special contribution to the Lord .
Christian Standard Bible®
Take the tribute from their half and give it to the priest Eleazar as a contribution to the Lord.
Literal Translation
you shall take from their half, and you shall give to Eleazar the priest as the heave offering of Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Of their halfe parte shalt thou take it, and geue it vnto Eleasar the prest for an Heueofferynge vnto the LORDE.
American Standard Version
take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for Jehovah's heave-offering.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ye shall take it of their halfe, and geue it vnto Eleazar the priest, as an heaue offeryng of the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, as a portion set apart for the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Take it of their halfe, and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest, for an heaue offering of the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt give them to Eleazar the priest as the first-fruits of the Lord.
English Revised Version
take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for the LORD'S heave offering.
Berean Standard Bible
Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt yyue `that part to Eleazar, preest, for tho ben the firste fruytis of the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
from their half ye do take, and thou hast given to Eleazar the priest -- the heave-offering of Jehovah.
Update Bible Version
take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's heave-offering.
Webster's Bible Translation
Take [it] of their half, and give [it] to Eleazar the priest, [for] a heave-offering of the LORD.
World English Bible
take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's heave-offering.
New King James Version
take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to the LORD.
New Living Translation
Give this share of the army's half to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord .
New Life Bible
Take this from their half and give it to Eleazar the religious leader, as a gift to the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
out of their half, shall ye take them , - and thou shall give them unto Eleazar the priest as a heave-offering unto Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
take it from their half, and give it to Elea'zar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

25 And the Lord said to Moses, 26 Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people: 27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people: 28 And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep: 29 Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord. 30 And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord. 31 So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 And seventy-two thousand oxen, 34 And sixty-one thousand asses;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an heave: Numbers 18:26, Exodus 29:27, Deuteronomy 12:12, Deuteronomy 12:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:28 - is an heave Leviticus 7:14 - an heave Numbers 18:19 - the heave Numbers 31:41 - Eleazar 2 Chronicles 15:11 - offered

Cross-References

Genesis 28:13
And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.
Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.
Genesis 31:3
Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.
Genesis 31:10
And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.
Genesis 31:11
And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.
Genesis 31:24
Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.
Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.
Genesis 31:39
Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
Genesis 31:53
May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And take it of their half,.... Of the half part of the prey divided to the soldiers:

and give it unto Eleazar the priest for an heave offering of the Lord; by way of thanksgiving for the success and victory, God had given them, by means of which so much booty had fallen into their hands.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An heave-offering - Render simply an offering, and compare Numbers 18:24. The verb from which the word here rendered “heave-offering” is derived, is rightly translated “levy” in Numbers 31:28.


 
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