Numbers 31:47

47 From the half-share given to the people, Moses took one of every fifty prisoners and animals and gave them to the Levites, who maintained the LORD ’s Tabernacle. All this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 31:47 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:47

(See Gill on Numbers 31:32).

Numbers 31:47 In-Context

45 30,500 donkeys,

46 and 16,000 virgin girls.

47 From the half-share given to the people, Moses took one of every fifty prisoners and animals and gave them to the Levites, who maintained the LORD ’s Tabernacle. All this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.

48 Then all the generals and captains came to Moses

49 and said, “We, your servants, have accounted for all the men who went out to battle under our command; not one of us is missing!