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Numbers 31:46

And sixteen thousand persons;)

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and sixteen thousand persons),
King James Version
And sixteen thousand persons;)
Lexham English Bible
and sixteen thousand humans.
English Standard Version
and 16,000 persons—
New Century Version
and 16,000 people.
New English Translation
and 16,000 people.
Amplified Bible
and 16,000 people—
New American Standard Bible
and the captive people were sixteen thousand—
Geneva Bible (1587)
And sixteene thousande persons)
Legacy Standard Bible
and the human beings were 16,000—
Complete Jewish Bible
and 16,000 persons —
Darby Translation
and sixteen thousand human persons,)
Easy-to-Read Version
and 16,000 women.
George Lamsa Translation
And sixteen thousand persons),
Christian Standard Bible®
and 16,000 people.
Literal Translation
and sixteen thousand human beings.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sixtene thousande wemen soules.
American Standard Version
and sixteen thousand persons),
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And sixteene thousande persons.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and sixteen thousand persons--
King James Version (1611)
And sixteene thousand persons)
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and persons, sixteen thousand.
English Revised Version
and sixteen thousand persons;)
Berean Standard Bible
and 16,000 people.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moyses took the fyftithe heed,
Young's Literal Translation
and of human beings sixteen thousand --
Update Bible Version
and sixteen thousand souls of man),
Webster's Bible Translation
And sixteen thousand persons;)
World English Bible
and sixteen thousand persons),
New King James Version
and sixteen thousand persons--
New Living Translation
and 16,000 virgin girls.
New Life Bible
and 16,000 persons.
New Revised Standard
and sixteen thousand persons.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, human persons, sixteen thousand.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And out of the sixteen thousand persons,
Revised Standard Version
and sixteen thousand persons--
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the human beings were 16,000—

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
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Cross-References

Genesis 31:5
And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me
Genesis 31:9
So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.
Genesis 31:23
And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.
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 31:32
As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.
Genesis 31:37
Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.
Genesis 31:54
And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.
Joshua 7:26
And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.
2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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