Numbers 31:40

and 16,000 people, with a Lord's contribution of 32.

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In The King James Version

And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD’S tribute was thirty and two persons.

In Context

3930,500 donkeys, with a Lord's contribution of 61,

41Moses gave the contribution to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord as the Lord had ordered Moses.

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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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