Numbers 31:51

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.

Numbers 31:51 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:51

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them
For it seems the several things before mentioned were all of gold:

even all wrought jewels;
or "vessels of work" ^F8 or wrought vessels, or instruments, "chains, bracelets" which were all of gold, and curiously wrought.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (hvem ylk) "vas operis", Montanus.

Numbers 31:51 In-Context

49 and told him, "Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

50 So we have presented to the Lord an offering of the gold articles each man found-armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces-to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord."

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.

52 All the gold of the contribution they offered to the Lord, from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, was 420 pounds.

53 Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.