Numbers 31:31

31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord 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 And thou shalt give to Eleazar the priest the first-fruits of the Lord.

30 And from the half belonging to the children of Israel thou shalt take one in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses, and from all the cattle; and thou shalt give them to the Levites that keep the charges in the tabernacle of the Lord.

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

32 And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was—of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:

33 and oxen, seventy-two thousand: