Numbers 31:47

World English Bible (2000)

even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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  • Num 31:30 : 30 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh."
  • Deut 12:17-19 : 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; 18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to. 19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
  • Ps 134:1 : 1 Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house!
  • Isa 56:10-11 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • Luke 10:1-8 : 1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. 2 Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way. 5 Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.' 6 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. 7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house. 8 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
  • 1 Thess 5:12-13 : 12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, 13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
  • Num 18:21-24 : 21 "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting. 22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, 'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.'"

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  • Num 31:25-32
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    25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    26 "Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;

    27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

    28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks:

    29 take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's wave offering.

    30 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh."

    31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

    32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

  • Num 31:40-43
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    87%

    40 The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons.

    41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

    42 Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred

    43 (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

  • Num 31:46
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    46 and sixteen thousand persons),

  • Num 7:4-6
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    4 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    5 "Accept these from them, that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service."

    6 Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.

  • Josh 14:2-3
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    2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

    3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

  • Num 8:20
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    20 Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

  • Num 34:13
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    13 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, "This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;

  • Num 3:44-45
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    44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

  • Num 1:48-49
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    48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

  • Num 35:8-9
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    8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites."

    9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 34:16
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    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 26:52
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    52 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:54
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    54 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.

  • Josh 12:6
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    6 Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Num 31:48
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    48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;

  • Josh 13:29
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    29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.

  • Num 32:28
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    28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.

  • Num 2:33
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    33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Num 31:36-37
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    36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

    37 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

  • Num 30:1
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    1 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.

  • Num 3:42
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    42 Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

  • Num 3:49
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    49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

  • Josh 18:7
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    7 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance. Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them."

  • Num 4:46
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    46 All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses,

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    49 According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Num 31:11
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    11 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

  • Num 18:25
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    25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 29:40
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    40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Num 36:5
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    5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Yahweh, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.

  • Lev 8:29
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    29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Num 18:6
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    6 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Josh 21:8
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    8 The children of Israel gave these cities with their suburbs by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.

  • Num 3:51
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    51 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.