Numbers 31:31

And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

In Context

30Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

32And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:28And the children of Israel going forth did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

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 →

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