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Complete Jewish Bible

Numbers 31:46

and 16,000 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—
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),
Bible in Basic English
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 (LY: iv) Adonai said to Moshe, 26 "Take all the booty, both people and animals, you, El‘azar the cohen and the leaders of clans in the community; 27 and divide the booty into two parts: half for the experienced soldiers who went out to battle, and half for the rest of the community. 28 From the portion of the soldiers who went out to battle, levy a tax for Adonai consisting of one-five-hundredth of the persons, cattle, donkeys and sheep; 29 take it from their half and give it to El‘azar the cohen as a portion set apart for Adonai . 30 From the half that goes to the people of Isra'el, you are to take one-fiftieth of the persons, and of the cattle, donkeys and sheep, that is, of all the livestock; and give them to the L'vi'im taking care of the tabernacle of Adonai ." 31 Moshe and El‘azar the cohen did as Adonai had ordered Moshe. 32 The booty, over and above the portion which the soldiers took, came to 675,000 sheep, 33 72,000 cattle, 34 61,000 donkeys,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I see by the way your father looks that he feels differently toward me than before; but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:9
This is how God has taken away your father's animals and given them to me.
Genesis 31:20
and Ya‘akov outwitted Lavan the Arami by not telling him of his intended flight.
Genesis 31:23
Lavan took his kinsmen with him and spent the next seven days pursuing Ya‘akov, overtaking him in the hill-country of Gil‘ad.
Genesis 31:24
But God came to Lavan the Arami in a dream that night and said to him, "Be careful that you don't say anything to Ya‘akov, either good or bad."
Genesis 31:32
But if you find your gods with someone, that person will not remain alive. So with our kinsmen to witness, if you spot anything that I have which belongs to you, take it back." Ya‘akov did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:37
You have felt around in all my stuff, but what have you found of all your household goods? Put it here, in front of my kinsmen and yours, so that they can render judgment between the two of us!
Genesis 31:54
Ya‘akov offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his kinsmen to the meal. They ate the food and spent the whole night on the mountain.
Joshua 7:26
Over him they piled a great mound of stones, which is there to this day. Finally Adonai turned away from his fierce anger. And this is why that place is called the Valley of Akhor [trouble] to this day.
2 Samuel 18:17
They took Avshalom and threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled a big heap of stones over him. All Isra'el fled, each one to his tent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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