And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the Lord’s tribute was threescore and twelve.
KJV
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4 additional translationsASV
And the oxen were thirty and six thousand; of which Jehovah’s tribute was threescore and twelve.
WEB
36,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,
YLT
and the herd is six and thirty thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah is two and seventy;
DBT
and the oxen were thirty-six thousand, and the tribute thereof for Jehovah, seventy-two;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC