◄ Numbers 31:50 ►
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Good News Translation
So we are bringing the gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces that each of us has taken. We offer them to the LORD as a payment for our lives, so that he will protect us."

New Revised Standard Version
And we have brought the LORD’s offering, what each of us found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and pendants, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

Contemporary English Version
So we want to give the LORD all the gold jewelry we took from the Midianites. It's our gift to him for watching over us and our troops."

New American Bible
So, we have brought as an offering to the LORD articles of gold that each of us has picked up—anklets, bracelets, rings, earrings, or pendants—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

therefore brought.

16,750 shekels, equal to l37,869

16s

5d of our money. an oblation

Psalm 107:15,21,22 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. . . .

Psalm 116:12,17 What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that he hath rendered to me? . . .

gotten.

Exodus 30:12,15,16 When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned. . . .

Leviticus 17:11 Because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul.

Context
The Voluntary Offering
…49We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting. 50Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.51And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers kinds,…
Cross References
Exodus 30:12
When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.

Exodus 35:22
Both men and women gave bracelets and earrings, rings and tablets: every vessel of gold was set aside to be offered to the Lord.

Numbers 31:49
We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting.

Numbers 31:51
And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers kinds,

Numbers 31:49
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