Numbers 31:46
44 36,000 cattle,
45 30,500 donkeys,
and 16,000 people.
47 From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
48 Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and of hundreds—approached Moses
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.
- KJV
- And sixteen thousand persons;)
- WEB
- and sixteen thousand persons),
- ASV
- and sixteen thousand persons),
- DARBY
- and sixteen thousand human persons,)
- BLB
- and persons sixteen thousand.
- ÅB
- og av mennesker seksten tusen.
- OTB
- og totalt seksten tusen personer.
- B1930
- og av mennesker seksten tusen.