Numbers 31:51

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of wrought articles.

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 they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

50 "So we have brought as an offering to the LORD what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD ."

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of wrought articles.

52 All the gold of the offering which they offered up to the LORD , from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.

53 The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.