Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, April 9th, 2026
Thursday in Easter Week
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

New Revised Standard

Numbers 31:33

seventy-two thousand oxen,

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 - Beeves;   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 - Slave;   Talmud;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and seventy-two thousand oxen,
King James Version
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
Lexham English Bible
seventy-two thousand cattle,
English Standard Version
72,000 cattle,
New Century Version
72,000 cattle,
New English Translation
72,000 cattle,
Amplified Bible
and 72,000 cattle,
New American Standard Bible
seventy-two thousand cattle,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And seuentie and two thousand beeues,
Legacy Standard Bible
and 72,000 cattle,
Complete Jewish Bible
72,000 cattle,
Darby Translation
and seventy-two thousand oxen,
Easy-to-Read Version
72,000 cattle,
George Lamsa Translation
And seventy-two thousand oxen,
Christian Standard Bible®
72,000 cattle,
Literal Translation
and seventy two thousand oxen,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
two and seuentye thousande oxen,
American Standard Version
and threescore and twelve thousand oxen,
Bible in Basic English
And seventy-two thousand oxen,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And three score and twelue thousande of beefes,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
King James Version (1611)
And threescore and twelue thousand beeues,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and oxen, seventy-two thousand:
English Revised Version
and threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
Berean Standard Bible
72,000 cattle,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of oxun two and seuenti thousynde, of assis sixti thousynde and a thousynde;
Young's Literal Translation
and of the herd two and seventy thousand;
Update Bible Version
and threescore and twelve thousand oxen,
Webster's Bible Translation
And seventy two thousand beeves,
World English Bible
and seventy-two thousand oxen,
New King James Version
seventy-two thousand cattle,
New Living Translation
72,000 cattle,
New Life Bible
72,000 cattle,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, of the herd, seventy-two thousand;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Seventy-two thousand oxen,
Revised Standard Version
seventy-two thousand cattle,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and 72,000 cattle,

Contextual Overview

25 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the ancestral houses of the congregation make an inventory of the booty captured, both human and animal. 27 Divide the booty into two parts, between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation. 28 From the share of the warriors who went out to battle, set aside as tribute for the Lord , one item out of every five hundred, whether persons, oxen, donkeys, sheep, or goats. 29 Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord . 30 But from the Israelites' half you shall take one out of every fifty, whether persons, oxen, donkeys, sheep, or goats—all the animals—and give them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the Lord ." 31 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord had commanded Moses: 32 The booty remaining from the spoil that the troops had taken totaled six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 seventy-two thousand oxen, 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 24:28
Then the girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.
Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

:-.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile