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New King James Version

Numbers 31:40

The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the LORD's tribute was thirty-two persons.

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.
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 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 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 26 "Count up the plunder that was taken--of man and beast--you and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation; 27 and divide the plunder into two parts, between those who took part in the war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. 28 And levy a tribute for the LORD on the men of war who went out to battle: one of every five hundred of the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep; 29 take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to the LORD. 30 And from the children of Israel's half you shall take one of every fifty, drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD." 31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. 32 The booty remaining from the plunder, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 seventy-two thousand cattle, 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,

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Cross-References

Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and indeed it was not favorable toward him as before.
Genesis 31:4
So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock,
Genesis 31:15
Are we not considered strangers by him? For he has sold us, and also completely consumed our money.
Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob rose and set his sons and his wives on camels.
Genesis 31:19
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her father's.
Genesis 31:22
And Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
Exodus 3:1
Exodus 6:2-7:7; 11:1-4; 12:35,36">[xr] Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.
Luke 2:8
Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.
Hebrews 13:7
Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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