Numbers 31:46
Moyses took the fyftithe heed,
Wycliffe (portions)
In The King James Version
And sixteen thousand persons;)
In Context
45and of thretti thousynde assis and fyue hundrid, and of sixtene thousynde wymmen,
47and yaf to the dekenes, that wakiden in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord comaundide.
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 →