Numbers 31:41
Moses took the tax that was to be an offering presented to Yahweh. He gave it to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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40The persons were sixteen thousand women of whom Yahweh's tax was thirty-two.
42As for the people of Israel's half that Moses had taken from the soldiers who had gone to war—
Cross References
Numbers 5:9Every offering of the people of Israel, the things that are set aside and brought to the priest by the people of Israel, will belong to him.
Numbers 18:19All the holy offerings that the people of Israel present to Yahweh, I have given to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a continual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt, a binding covenant forever, before Yahweh for both you and your descendants with you.”
Matthew 10:10Do not take a traveling bag for your journey, or an extra tunic, or sandals, or a staff, for a laborer deserves his food.
Galatians 6:6The one who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches.
Hebrews 7:4See how great this man was to whom the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the things that he had taken in battle.
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 →