Numbers 31:38

JPS Old Testament

And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was seventy-two.

King James Version
And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the Lord 'S tribute was threescore and twelve.

Lexham English Bible
and the cattle were thirty-six thousand; and the tribute to Yahweh was seventy-two.

English Standard Version
The cattle were 36,000, of which the Lord 's tribute was 72.

New Century Version
They got 36,000 cattle, and they gave 72 of them to the Lord .

New English Translation
The cattle numbered 36,000; the Lord 's tribute was 72.

Amplified Bible
the cattle were 36,000, from which the LORD'S levy was 72;

New American Standard Bible
the cattle were thirty-six thousand, from which the LORD'S tribute tax was seventy-two;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the beeues were six & thirty thousad, whereof the Lordes tribute was seuentie & two.

Legacy Standard Bible
and the cattle were 36,000, from which the levy of Yahweh was 72;

Complete Jewish Bible
36,000 cattle, of which Adonai 's tribute was seventy-two;

Darby Translation
and the oxen were thirty-six thousand, and the tribute thereof for Jehovah, seventy-two;

Easy-to-Read Version
The soldiers got 36,000 cattle. They gave 72 cattle to the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
And the oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which the LORDS tribute was seven hundred and twenty.

Christian Standard Bible®
from the 36,000 cattle,

Literal Translation
and the oxen, thirty six thousand; and their tribute to Jehovah, seventy two;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Item sixe and thirtie thousande oxen: wherof the LORDE had two & seuentye.

American Standard Version
And the oxen were thirty and six thousand; of which Jehovah's tribute was threescore and twelve.

Bible in Basic English
The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the beefes were thirtie and sixe thousande, of which the Lordes part was threescore and twelue.

King James Version (1611)
And the beeues were thirtie and sixe thousand, of which the Lords tribute was threescore and twelue.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the oxen, six and thirty thousand, and the tribute to the Lord seventy-two.

English Revised Version
And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.

Berean Standard Bible
36,000 cattle with a tribute to the LORD of 72,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and of sixe and thretti thousynde oxun,

Young's Literal Translation
and the herd [is] six and thirty thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah [is] two and seventy;

Update Bible Version
And the oxen were thirty and six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was threescore and twelve.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the beeves [were] thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute [was] seventy two.

World English Bible
The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two.

New King James Version
The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD's tribute was seventy-two.

New Living Translation
36,000 cattle, of which 72 were the Lord 's share;

New Life Bible
There were 36,000 cattle, from which the Lord's tax was seventy-two.

New Revised Standard
The oxen were thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord 's tribute was seventy-two.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the herd, thirty-six thousand, - and the tribute of them unto Yahweh - seventy-two;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen:

Revised Standard Version
The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD's tribute was seventy-two.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the cattle were 36,000, from which the LORD'S levy was 72;

Contextual Overview

²⁵ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ²⁶ 'Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation; ²⁷ and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation; ²⁸ and levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the flocks; ²⁹ take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, as a portion set apart for the LORD. ³⁰ And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.' ³¹ And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. ³² Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, ³³ and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, ³⁴ and threescore and one thousand asses,

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Cross-References

Genesis 30:27
And Laban said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes--I have observed the signs, and the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.'

Genesis 30:30
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased abundantly; and the LORD hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned. And now when shall I provide for mine own house also?'

Genesis 31:2
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.

Genesis 31:4
And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

Exodus 23:26
None shall miscarry, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfil.

Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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