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New Century Version

Numbers 31:40

They got 16,000 people, and they gave 32 of them 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 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
The soldiers got 16,000 women. They gave 32 women to the Lord .
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 The Lord said to Moses, 26 "You, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the family groups should take a count of the goods, the men, and the animals that were taken. 27 Then divide those possessions between the soldiers who went to war and the rest of the people. 28 From the soldiers who went to war, take a tax for the Lord of one item out of every five hundred. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, or sheep. 29 Take it from the soldiers' half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as the Lord 's share. 30 And from the people's half, take one item out of every fifty. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals. Give that to the Levites, who take care of the Lord 's Holy Tent." 31 So Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord commanded Moses. 32 There remained from what 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 before.
Genesis 31:4
So Jacob told Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his flocks.
Genesis 31:15
He has treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all of the money you paid for us.
Genesis 31:17
So Jacob put his children and his wives on camels,
Genesis 31:19
While Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep, Rachel stole the idols that belonged to him.
Genesis 31:22
Three days later Laban learned that Jacob had run away,
Exodus 3:1
One day Moses was taking care of Jethro's flock. (Jethro was the priest of Midian and also Moses' father-in-law.) When Moses led the flock to the west side of the desert, he came to Sinai, the mountain of God.
Hosea 12:12
Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia where he worked to get a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.
Luke 2:8
That night, some shepherds were in the fields nearby watching their sheep.
Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders who 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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