Numbers 31:40

40 the humans were sixteen thousand, and the tribute to Yahweh [was] thirty-two persons.

Numbers 31:40 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:40

(See Gill on Numbers 31:32).

Numbers 31:40 In-Context

38 and the cattle were thirty-six thousand; and the tribute to Yahweh [was] seventy-two.

39 Of the male donkeys there were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute to Yahweh was sixty-one;

40 the humans were sixteen thousand, and the tribute to Yahweh [was] thirty-two persons.

41 And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

42 From the half of the {Israelites}, which Moses divided from the men who were fighting,

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "human"