Numbers 31:47

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

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  • Num 31:30 : 30 From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”
  • Deut 12:17-19 : 17 You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings. 18 Only in the presence of the LORD your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all the output of your labor. 19 Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.
  • Ps 134:1 : 1 A song of ascents. Attention! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who serve in the LORD’s temple during the night.
  • Isa 56:10-11 : 10 All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze. 11 The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
  • Luke 10:1-8 : 1 The Mission of the Seventy-Two After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 2 He said to them,“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest. 3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves. 4 Do not carry a money bag, a traveler’s bag, or sandals, and greet no one on the road. 5 Whenever you enter a house, first say,‘May peace be on this house!’ 6 And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you. 7 Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house. 8 Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.
  • 1 Thess 5:12-13 : 12 Final Instructions Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, 13 and to esteem them most highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
  • Num 18:21-24 : 21 See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform– the service of the tent of meeting. 22 No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die. 23 But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance. 24 But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the LORD as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:25-32
    8 verses
    91%

    25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    26“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

    27Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war– who went out to battle– and the other for all the community.

    28“You must exact a tribute for the LORD from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.

    29You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the LORD.

    30From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep– from every kind of animal– and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”

    31So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

    32The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,

  • Num 31:40-43
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    87%

    40The people were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 people.

    41So Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

    42From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

    43there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community,

  • Num 31:46
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    46and 16,000 people.

  • Num 7:4-6
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    76%

    4The Distribution of the Gifts Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    5“Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man as his service requires.”

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

  • Josh 14:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2The land assignments to the nine and a half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the LORD had instructed Moses.

    3Now Moses had assigned land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land to the Levites.

  • Num 8:20
    75%

    20So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

  • Num 34:13
    75%

    13Then Moses commanded the Israelites:“This is the land which you will inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes,

  • Num 3:44-45
    2 verses
    74%

    44Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    45“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the LORD.

  • Num 1:48-49
    2 verses
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    48The LORD had said to Moses,

    49“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

  • Num 35:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.

    9The Cities of Refuge Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 34:16
    73%

    16Appointed Officials The LORD said to Moses:

  • Num 26:52
    73%

    52Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 31:54
    73%

    54So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.

  • Josh 12:6
    73%

    6Moses the LORD’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the LORD’s servant assigned their land to Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Num 31:48
    73%

    48Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders over thousands and the commanders over hundreds, approached Moses

  • Josh 13:29
    73%

    29Moses assigned land to the half-tribe of Manasseh by its clans.

  • Num 32:28
    73%

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

  • Num 2:33
    73%

    33But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 31:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;

    37the LORD’s tribute from the sheep was 675.

  • Num 30:1
    72%

    1Vows Made by Men Moses told the leaders of the tribes concerning the Israelites,“This is what the LORD has commanded:

  • Num 3:42
    72%

    42So Moses numbered all the firstborn males among the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.

  • Num 3:49
    72%

    49So Moses took the redemption money from those who were in excess of those redeemed by the Levites.

  • Josh 18:7
    72%

    7But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the LORD. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land east of the Jordan which Moses the LORD’s servant assigned them.”

  • Num 4:46
    72%

    46All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,

  • Num 4:49
    72%

    49According to the word of the LORD they were numbered, by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. Thus were they numbered by him, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Num 31:11
    72%

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • Num 18:25
    72%

    25Instructions for the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 29:40
    72%

    40(30:1) So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the LORD had commanded him.

  • Num 36:5
    72%

    5Moses’ Decision Then Moses gave a ruling to the Israelites by the word of the LORD:“What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.

  • Lev 8:29
    72%

    29Finally, Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the LORD from the ram of ordination. It was Moses’ share just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Num 18:6
    72%

    6I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the LORD, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.

  • Josh 21:8
    71%

    8So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the LORD had instructed Moses.

  • Num 3:51
    71%

    51Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.