Numbers 31:41
And Moses gave the tribute of Jehovah's heave-offering to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
40and the human persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the tribute for Jehovah was thirty-two persons.
Cross References
Numbers 5:9And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his.
Numbers 18:19All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Jehovah, have I given thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by an everlasting statute: it shall be an everlasting covenant of salt before Jehovah unto thee and thy seed with thee.
Matthew 10:10nor scrip for the way, nor two body coats, nor sandals, nor a staff: for the workman is worthy of his nourishment.
Galatians 6:6Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teaches in all good things.
Hebrews 7:4Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even] the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.
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 →