Numbers 31:31

And Mosheh and Elazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Mosheh.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30And of the half (belonging) to the children of Israel, take one of every fifty, of man, of oxen, sheep, and all cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

32And the booty, the rest of the prey which the people who went forth to the war had taken, was, sheep six hundred and seventy-five thousand,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:28And the sons of Israel went and did as the Lord had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they.

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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