Numbers 31:47

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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  • Num 31:30 : 30 And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.
  • Deut 12:17-19 : 17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering; 18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand. 19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
  • Ps 134:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.
  • Isa 56:10-11 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep. 11 Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
  • Luke 10:1-8 : 1 Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come. 2 And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain. 3 Go on your way: see, I send you out like lambs among wolves. 4 Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way. 5 And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house. 6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again. 7 And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house. 8 And into whatever town you go, if they take you in, take whatever food is given to you:
  • 1 Thess 5:12-13 : 12 But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you; 13 And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
  • Num 18:21-24 : 21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting. 22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin. 23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage. 24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:25-32
    8 verses
    91%

    25 And the Lord said to Moses,

    26 Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:

    27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

    28 And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:

    29 Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.

    30 And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.

    31 So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

    32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

  • Num 31:40-43
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    87%

    40 And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.

    41 And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

    42 And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

    43 (Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

  • Num 31:46
    81%

    46 And sixteen thousand persons;)

  • Num 7:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4 And the Lord said to Moses,

    5 Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work.

    6 So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

  • Josh 14:2-3
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    76%

    2 Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

    3 For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

  • Num 8:20
    75%

    20 All these things Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel did to the Levites; as the Lord gave orders to Moses about the Levites, so the children of Israel did.

  • Num 34:13
    75%

    13 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:

  • Num 3:44-45
    2 verses
    74%

    44 And the Lord said to Moses,

    45 Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.

  • Num 1:48-49
    2 verses
    74%

    48 For the Lord said to Moses,

    49 Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,

  • Num 35:8-9
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    74%

    8 And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

    9 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 34:16
    73%

    16 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 26:52
    73%

    52 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 31:54
    73%

    54 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.

  • Josh 12:6
    73%

    6 Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel overcame them; and Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave their land for a heritage to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Num 31:48
    73%

    48 Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,

  • Josh 13:29
    73%

    29 And Moses gave their heritage to the half-tribe of Manasseh by their families.

  • Num 32:28
    73%

    28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.

  • Num 2:33
    73%

    33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

  • Num 31:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36 And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

    37 Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

  • Num 30:1
    72%

    1 So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

  • Num 3:42
    72%

    42 So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.

  • Num 3:49
    72%

    49 So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had not been taken by the Levites;

  • Josh 18:7
    72%

    7 For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.

  • Num 4:46
    72%

    46 And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,

  • Num 4:49
    72%

    49 At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.

  • Num 31:11
    72%

    11 They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

  • Num 18:25
    72%

    25 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 36:5
    72%

    5 So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right.

  • Lev 8:29
    72%

    29 And Moses took the breast, waving it for a wave offering before the Lord; it was Moses' part of the sheep of the priest's offering, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Num 18:6
    72%

    6 Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • Josh 21:8
    71%

    8 All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.

  • Num 3:51
    71%

    51 And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord had said.