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Webster's Bible Translation

Numbers 31:46

And sixteen thousand persons;)

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),
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--
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the human beings were 16,000—

Contextual Overview

25 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: 27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: 28 And levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: 29 Take [it] of their half, and give [it] to Eleazar the priest, [for] a heave-offering of the LORD. 30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD. 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. 32 And the booty, [being] the rest of the prey which the men of war had taken, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, 33 And seventy two thousand beeves, 34 And sixty one thousand asses,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 31:5
And said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it [is] not towards me as before: but the God of my father hath been with me.
Genesis 31:9
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he was about to depart.
Genesis 31:23
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream by night, and said to him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis 31:32
With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what [is] thine with me, and take [it] to thee: for Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:37
Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household-stuff? set [it] here before my brethren, and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
Genesis 31:54
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
Joshua 7:26
And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger: wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor to this day.
2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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