Numbers 31:47

47 even of the children of Yisra'el's half, Moshe took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moshe.

Numbers 31:47 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:47

(See Gill on Numbers 31:32).

Numbers 31:47 In-Context

45 and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

46 and sixteen thousand persons),

47 even of the children of Yisra'el's half, Moshe took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moshe.

48 The officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moshe;

49 and they said to Moshe, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.