Numbers 31:39
And the asses, thirty thousand five hundred, of which the portion brought before the Lord sixty-one.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
38And of the thirty-six thousand oxen, the portion brought before the Lord seventy-two.
40And the persons sixteen thousand, those of them brought before the Lord thirty-two persons.
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 →