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Numbers 31:40

The soldiers got 16,000 women. They gave 32 women to the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   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 - Nethinim;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nethinim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Beeves,;   Eleazar ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Booty;   Priest;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jephthah;  

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
The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom the LORD's tribute was thirty-two persons.
King James Version
And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the Lord 'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
Lexham English Bible
the humans were sixteen thousand, and the tribute to Yahweh was thirty-two persons.
English Standard Version
The persons were 16,000, of which the Lord 's tribute was 32 persons.
New Century Version
They got 16,000 people, and they gave 32 of them to the Lord .
New English Translation
The people were 16,000, of which the Lord 's tribute was 32 people.
Amplified Bible
the persons were 16,000, from whom the LORD'S levy was 32 persons.
New American Standard Bible
and the captive people were sixteen thousand, from whom the LORD'S tribute tax was thirty-two persons.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And of persons sixtene thousand, whereof the Lordes tribute was two and thirtie persons.
Legacy Standard Bible
and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the levy of Yahweh was 32 persons.
Complete Jewish Bible
and 16,000 persons, of whom Adonai 's tribute was thirty-two persons.
Darby Translation
and the human persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the tribute for Jehovah was thirty-two persons.
George Lamsa Translation
And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORDS tribute was three hundred and twenty persons.
Christian Standard Bible®
and from the 16,000 people,
Literal Translation
and the human beings sixteen thousand; and their tribute to Jehovah, thirty two persons.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Item sixtene thousande soules of wemen: wherof the LORDE had two & thirtie.
American Standard Version
And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Jehovah's tribute was thirty and two persons.
Bible in Basic English
And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the persons were sixteene thousande, of which the Lordes part was thirtie and two persons.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
King James Version (1611)
And the persons were sixteene thousand, of which the Lords tribute was thirtie and two persons.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the persons, sixteen thousand, and the tribute of them to the Lord, thirty-two souls.
English Revised Version
And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
Berean Standard Bible
and 16,000 people with a tribute to the LORD of 32.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of sixtene thousynde persoones of men, twei and thretti persoones bifelden in to the `part of the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
and the human beings [are] sixteen thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah [is] two and thirty persons.
Update Bible Version
And the souls of man were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty and two souls.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the persons [were] sixteen thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute [was] thirty and two persons.
World English Bible
The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons.
New King James Version
The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the LORD's tribute was thirty-two persons.
New Living Translation
and 16,000 virgin girls, of whom 32 were the Lord 's share.
New Life Bible
And there were 16,000 persons, from whom the Lord's tax was thirty-two.
New Revised Standard
The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the Lord 's tribute was thirty-two persons.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the human persons, sixteen thousand, - and the tribute of them unto Yahweh, thirty-two persons.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.
Revised Standard Version
The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the LORD's tribute was thirty-two persons.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the LORD'S levy was 32 persons.

Contextual Overview

25 Then the Lord said to Moses, 26 "You, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders should count all the prisoners, animals, and everything the soldiers took in war. 27 Then divide these things between the soldiers who went to war and the rest of the Israelites. 28 Take part of these things from the soldiers who went to war. That part will belong to the Lord . His share is one from every 500 items. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, and sheep. 29 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 . 30 And then, from the people's half, take one thing for every 50 items. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or any other animal. Give that share to the Levites, because they take care of the Lord 's Holy Tent." 31 So Moses and Eleazar did what the Lord commanded Moses. 32 The soldiers had taken 675,000 sheep, 33 72,000 cattle, 34 61,000 donkeys,

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Cross-References

Genesis 31:2
Then Jacob noticed that Laban was not as friendly as he had been in the past.
Genesis 31:4
So Jacob told Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his flocks of sheep and goats.
Genesis 31:15
He treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all the money that should have been ours.
Genesis 31:17
So Jacob prepared for the trip. He put his children and his wives on camels.
Genesis 31:19
While Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep, Rachel went into his house and stole the false gods that belonged to her father.
Genesis 31:22
Three days later Laban learned that Jacob had run away.
Exodus 3:1
Moses' father-in-law was named Jethro. Jethro was a priest of Midian. Moses took care of Jethro's sheep. One day Moses led the sheep to the west side of the desert. He went to a mountain called Horeb, the mountain of God.
Hosea 12:12
"Jacob ran away to the land of Aram. There Israel worked for a wife. He kept sheep to get another wife.
Luke 2:8
That night, some shepherds were out in the fields near Bethlehem watching their sheep.
Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders. They taught God's message to you. Remember how they lived and died, and copy their faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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