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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Numbers 31:42

As for the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war—

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 - Nethinim;   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;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Of the children of Yisra'el's half, which Moshe divided off from the men who warred
King James Version
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
Lexham English Bible
From the half of the Israelites, which Moses divided from the men who were fighting,
English Standard Version
From the people of Israel's half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army—
New Century Version
Moses separated the people's half from the soldiers' half.
New English Translation
From the Israelites' half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,
Amplified Bible
As for the Israelites' half, which Moses separated from that of the warriors—
New American Standard Bible
As for the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war—
Geneva Bible (1587)
And of the halfe of the children of Israel, which Moses deuided from the men of warre,
Legacy Standard Bible
As for the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war—
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: v) From the half that went to people of Isra'el, which Moshe separated from that of the men who had gone to fight —
Darby Translation
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses had divided, [taking it] from the men that served in the war,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses counted the people's half. This was their share that Moses had taken from the soldiers who had gone to war.
George Lamsa Translation
And of the children of Israels half, which Moses divided from the men who had gone out to war,
Good News Translation
The share of the community was the same as that for the soldiers: 337,500 sheep and goats, 36,000 cattle, 30,500 donkeys, and 16,000 virgins.
Christian Standard Bible®
From the Israelites’ half, which Moses separated from the men who fought,
Literal Translation
And of the sons of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men who warred:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the other halfe which Moses deuyded vnto the children of Israel fro thorne; men of warre
American Standard Version
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred
Bible in Basic English
And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the other halfe of the children of Israel which Moyses deuided from the men of warre,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred--
King James Version (1611)
And of the children of Israels halfe, which Moses diuided from the men that warred:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
from the half belonging to the children of Israel, whom Moses separated from the men of war.
English Revised Version
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred,
Berean Standard Bible
From the Israelites' half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of the myddil part of the sones of Israel, which he departide to hem that weren in batel.
Young's Literal Translation
And of the sons of Israel's half, which Moses halved from the men who war --
Update Bible Version
And of the sons of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred
Webster's Bible Translation
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
World English Bible
Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred
New King James Version
And from the children of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who fought--
New Living Translation
Half of the plunder belonged to the people of Israel, and Moses separated it from the half belonging to the fighting men.
New Life Bible
Moses divided the people of Israel's half from the men who had gone to war.
New Revised Standard
As for the Israelites' half, which Moses separated from that of the troops,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, of the half, allotted unto the sons of Israel, - which Moses halved away from the men who had gone out in the host,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle.
Revised Standard Version
From the people of Israel's half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had gone to war--
THE MESSAGE
The other half-share for the Israelite community that Moses set apart from what was given to the men who fought the war was: 337,500 sheep 36,000 cattle 30,500 donkeys 16,000 people

Contextual Overview

25 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' households of the congregation take a count of the booty that was captured, both of man and of animal; 27 and divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation. 28 "Levy a tax for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep; 29 take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to the LORD. 30 "From the sons of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD." 31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 32 Now the booty that remained from the spoil which the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep, 33 and 72,000 cattle, 34 and 61,000 donkeys,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Numbers 31:30 - one portion

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Genesis 16:11
The angel of the LORD said to her further, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall call his name Ishmael, Because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.
Genesis 16:13
Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees"; for she said, "Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?"
Genesis 27:33
Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."
Genesis 29:32
Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORD has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me."
Genesis 31:1
Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth."
Genesis 31:3
Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
Genesis 31:5
and said to them, "I see your father's attitude, that it is not friendly toward me as formerly, but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:11
"Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
Genesis 31:12
"He said, 'Lift up now your eyes and see that all the male goats which are mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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