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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Numbers 31:46

and the human beings were 16,000—

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),
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--

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,

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Cross-References

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 31:9
"Thus God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.
Genesis 31:23
then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:24
God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, "Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad."
Genesis 31:32
"The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmen point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:37
"Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.
Genesis 31:54
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinsmen to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
Joshua 7:26
They raised over him a great heap of stones that stands to this day, and the LORD turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the valley of Achor to this day.
2 Samuel 18:17
They took Absalom and cast him into a deep pit in the forest and erected over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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