Numbers 31:40
They took 16,000 virgins, and they dedicated 32 of them to Yahweh.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD’S tribute was thirty and two persons.
In Context
39They took 30,500 donkeys, and they gave 61 of them to Yahweh.
41Moses/I gave to Eleazar all the animals that had been given to Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded.
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 →