Numbers 31:40
38 36,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,
39 30,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,
and 16,000 people, including a tribute to the LORD of 32.
41 Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
42 From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and 16,000 people, including a tribute to the LORD of 32.
- KJV
- And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD’s tribute was thirty and two persons.
- WEB
- The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
- ASV
- And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Jehovah`s tribute was thirty and two persons.
- DARBY
- and the human persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the tribute for Jehovah was thirty-two persons.
- BLB
- And the persons [were] sixteen thousand, and their tribute to YHWH two and thirty persons.
- ÅB
- og av mennesker seksten tusen, og avgiften derav til Herren to og tretti.
- OTB
- seksten tusen personer, hvorav Herrens tributt var 32.
- B1930
- og av mennesker seksten tusen, og avgiften derav til Herren to og tretti.