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Numbers 31:41

And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to 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.
Amplified Bible
Moses gave the levy which was the LORD'S offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had 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.
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

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

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
But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.
Genesis 31:18
And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31:30
And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?
Genesis 31:33
So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.
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 31:40
This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Corinthians 11:26
In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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