God’s Word Translation
Numbers 31:28-47
28Collect a tax for the Lord. From the soldiers who served in the war collect one out of every 500 things. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.
29Collect all these things from the soldiers’ half of the loot, and give them to the priest Eleazar as a contribution to the Lord.
30From the Israelites’ half of the loot, collect one out of every 50 things. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, and every other kind of animal. Give them to the Levites who are in charge of the work done at the Lord’s tent.”
31Moses and the priest Eleazar did as the Lord commanded Moses.
32This is the loot that was left from everything that the troops took: 675,000 sheep and goats,
3372,000 cattle,
3461,000 donkeys, and
3532,000 women who had never gone to bed with a man.
36Half of it went to the soldiers who served in the war. Of the 337,500 sheep and goats they received,
37675 went to the Lord as taxes.
38Of the 36,000 cattle they received, 72 went to the Lord as taxes.
39Of the 30,500 donkeys they received, 61 went to the Lord as taxes.
40Of the 16,000 people they received, 32 went to the Lord as taxes.
41Moses gave the Lord’s taxes to the priest Eleazar, as the Lord had commanded him.
42Moses took the Israelites’ half of the loot from the soldiers.
43The community received 337,500 sheep and goats,
4436,000 cattle,
4530,500 donkeys,
46and 16,000 people.
47From the Israelites’ half Moses collected one out of every 50 things, including people and animals, as the Lord commanded him. Then he gave all this to the Levites who were in charge of the work done at the Lord’s tent.
Commentaries on Numbers 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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