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New Living Translation

Numbers 31:41

Moses gave all the Lord 's share to Eleazar the priest, just as the Lord had directed him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Offerings;   Servant;   Spoils;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Heave-Offering;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Spoil;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Booty;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - 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;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tribute;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave-offering, to El`azar the Kohen, as the LORD commanded Moshe.
King James Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord 'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Lexham English Bible
And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.
English Standard Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the Lord , to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
New Century Version
Moses gave the Lord 's share to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded him.
New English Translation
So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord 's raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Amplified Bible
Moses gave the levy which was the LORD'S offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
New American Standard Bible
And Moses gave the tribute tax, which was the LORD'S offering, to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses gaue the tribute of the Lordes offring vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses gave the levy, which was the contribution to Yahweh, to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe gave the tribute set apart for Adonai to El‘azar the cohen, as Adonai had ordered Moshe.
Darby Translation
And Moses gave the tribute of Jehovah's heave-offering to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses gave all these gifts for the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded him.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORDS gift offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Good News Translation
So Moses gave Eleazar the tax as a special contribution to the Lord , as the Lord had commanded.
Christian Standard Bible®
Moses gave the tribute to the priest Eleazar as a contribution for the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Literal Translation
And Moses gave the tribute, the heave offering of Jehovah, to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses gaue this heueofferynge of the LORDE vnto Eleasar the prest, as the LORDE commaunded him.
American Standard Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was Jehovah's heave-offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses gaue the tribute, which was the Lordes heaue offeryng, vnto Eleazar the priest, as the Lorde commaunded Moyses:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses gave the tribute, which was set apart for the LORD, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses gaue the tribute which was the Lords heaue offering, vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses gave the tribute to the Lord, the heave-offering of God, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses;
English Revised Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Berean Standard Bible
Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises bitook the noumbre of the firste fruytis of the Lord to Eleazar, preest, as it was comaundid to hym,
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses giveth the tribute -- Jehovah's heave-offering -- to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
Update Bible Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD'S heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
World English Bible
Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
New King James Version
So Moses gave the tribute which was the LORD's heave offering to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
New Life Bible
Moses gave the tax, which was the Lord's gift, to Eleazar the religious leader, just as the Lord had told Moses.
New Revised Standard
Moses gave the tribute, the offering for the Lord , to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses gave the tribute - the heave-offering of Yahweh, unto Eleazar the priest, - As Yahweh commanded Moses.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,
Revised Standard Version
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the offering for the LORD, to Elea'zar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
THE MESSAGE
Moses turned the tax over to Eleazar the priest as God 's part, following God 's instructions to Moses.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses gave the levy which was the LORD'S offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Contextual Overview

25 And the Lord said to Moses, 26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the family leaders of each tribe are to make a list of all the plunder taken in the battle, including the people and animals. 27 Then divide the plunder into two parts, and give half to the men who fought the battle and half to the rest of the people. 28 From the army's portion, first give the Lord his share of the plunder—one of every 500 of the prisoners and of the cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats. 29 Give this share of the army's half to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord . 30 From the half that belongs to the people of Israel, take one of every fifty of the prisoners and of the cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, and other animals. Give this share to the Levites, who are in charge of maintaining the Lord 's Tabernacle." 31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. 32 The plunder remaining from everything the fighting men had taken totaled 675,000 sheep and goats, 33 72,000 cattle, 34 61,000 donkeys,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Eleazar: Numbers 31:29-31, Numbers 18:8, Numbers 18:19, Matthew 10:10, 1 Corinthians 9:10-14, Galatians 6:6, 1 Timothy 5:17, Hebrews 7:4-6, Hebrews 7:9-12

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:28 - is an heave Leviticus 7:14 - an heave

Cross-References

Genesis 31:7
but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm.
Genesis 31:18
and he drove all his livestock in front of him. He packed all the belongings he had acquired in Paddan-aram and set out for the land of Canaan, where his father, Isaac, lived.
Genesis 31:30
I can understand your feeling that you must go, and your intense longing for your father's home. But why have you stolen my gods?"
Genesis 31:33
Laban went first into Jacob's tent to search there, then into Leah's, and then the tents of the two servant wives—but he found nothing. Finally, he went into Rachel's tent.
Genesis 31:38
"For twenty years I have been with you, caring for your flocks. In all that time your sheep and goats never miscarried. In all those years I never used a single ram of yours for food.
Genesis 31:40
"I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.
2 Corinthians 11:26
I have traveled on many long journeys. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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