Numbers 31:41
And Moses gave the tribute, which was set apart for the LORD, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
40And the persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
42And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred —
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 unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever; it is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.'
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 →