Numbers 31:51

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

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, "We have counted the soldiers under our command and not a man is missing.

50 We've brought offerings to God from the gold jewelry we got - armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, ornaments - to make atonement for our lives before God."

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

52 In total, the gold from the commanders of thousands and hundreds that Moses and Eleazar offered as a gift to God weighed about six hundred pounds,

53 all donated by the soldiers who had taken the booty.