A moment in scripture
Numbers 31:40
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And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the Lord’s tribute was thirty and two persons.
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The surrounding passage
- Numbers 31:38
And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the Lord’s tribute was threescore and twelve.
- Numbers 31:39
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the Lord’s tribute was threescore and one.
- Numbers 31:41
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:42
And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.