Numbers 31:51

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted from them the gold—all the crafted articles.

Numbers 31:51 in Other Translations

51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.

51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles.

51 So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from all the military commanders—all kinds of jewelry and crafted objects.

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from them, all that fine-crafted jewelry.

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.

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 said to him, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.

50 So we have brought as an offering to the LORD the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

51 Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted from them the gold—all the crafted articles.

52 All the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds that Moses and Eleazar presented as a gift to the LORD weighed 16,750 shekels.

53 Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.