Numbers 31:29
What does Numbers 31:29 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 31:29 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for Jehovah’s heave-offering.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for Jehovah’s heave-offering.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862from their half ye do take, and thou hast given to Eleazar the priest--the heave-offering of Jehovah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Of their half shall ye take it, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for a heave-offering of Jehovah.
Context
v.28And levy a tribute unto Jehovah of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the flocks:
v.29This passage
v.30And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 18:26
Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.
- Exodus 29:27
And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
- Deuteronomy 12:19
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.
- Deuteronomy 12:12
And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you.
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