Numbers 31:46
44 And thirty and six thousand beeves,
45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
And sixteen thousand persons;)
47 Even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
48 And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto 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.