Numbers 31:41
And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
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40And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.
Cross References
Numbers 5:9And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.
Numbers 18:19All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.
Matthew 10:10Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.
Galatians 6:6But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.
Hebrews 7:4Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:26-48
Distribution of the Spoil. ( b. c. 1452.) 25 And the Lord spake unto 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 unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of… Read the whole commentary →