Numbers 31:31

31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Numbers 31:31 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:31

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded
Moses.
] Took an account of the booty, divided it equally between the soldiers and the congregation of Israel, and levied a part out of each as a tribute for the Lord, which was given to the priests and Levites.

Numbers 31:31 In-Context

29 take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for Jehovah's heave-offering.

30 And 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.

31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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

33 and threescore and twelve thousand oxen,