Numbers 31:39

They took 30,500 donkeys, and they gave 61 of them to Yahweh.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD’S tribute was threescore and one.

In Context

38They took 36,000 cattle and gave 72 of them to Yahweh.

40They took 16,000 virgins, and they dedicated 32 of them to Yahweh.

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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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