וַחֲמֹרִ֕ים שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף וַחֲמֵ֣שׁ מֵא֑וֹת וּמִכְסָ֥ם לַֽיהוָ֖ה אֶחָ֥ד וְשִׁשִּֽׁים
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 31:39
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 31:39 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the donkeys were 30, 500, and their tax for Yahweh was 61.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
30,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
30,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,
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King James Version Public Domain
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which Jehovah's tribute was threescore and one.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD’S tribute was threescore and one.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the asses were thirtie thousande and fiue hundreth, whereof the Lordes tribute was three score and one:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the asses `are' thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to Jehovah `is' one and sixty;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and the donkeys [are] thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to YHWH [is] sixty-one;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The donkeys were 30,500 from which Yahweh's part was sixty-one.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the donkeys were 30, 500, and their tax for Yahweh was 61.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and the asses were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute thereof for Jehovah, sixty-one;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute was sixty one.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
30,500 donkeys, with a Lord's contribution of 61,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
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וּמִכְסָ֥ם
mekeç
H4371
“and · tax · their”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Numbers 31:28
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
computation, proportion to be paid, tribute, tax
- וַחֲמֹרִ֕ים chămôwr H2543 “and · donkeys” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute
- שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים shᵉlôwshîym H7970 “thirty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- אֶ֖לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- וַחֲמֵ֣שׁ châmêsh H2568 “and · five” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵא֑וֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּמִכְסָ֥ם mekeç H4371 “and · tax · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- לַֽיהוָ֖ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “to/for · LORD” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- אֶחָ֥ד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְשִׁשִּֽׁים shishshîym H8346 “and · sixty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וּמִכְסָ֥ם tax H4371 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּמִכְסָ֥ם tax H4371 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 6 adjectives
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 13 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ὄνος τριάκοντα χιλιάς καί πεντακόσιοι καί ὁ τέλος κύριος εἷς καί ἑξήκοντα
And asses, thirty thousand and five hundred, and the tribute to the Lord, sixty-one:
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וַחֲמָרֵי תְּלָתִין אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה וּנְסֵיבְהוֹן קֳדָם יְיָ שִׁתִּין וְחָד
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְחַמְרֵי תְּלָתִין אַלְפִין וַחֲמֵשׁ מְאָה וּסְכוּם נְסִיבַתְהוֹן לִשְׁמָא דַיְיָ שִׁתִּין וְחָד
asses thirty thousand five hundred, for the Name of the Lord sixty-one; persons sixteen thousand, for the Name of the Lord _
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mekeç (“tax”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “tax” (mekeç) shape what this verse is saying?
- Numbers 31:28 shares the word «tax» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 18 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 31:39 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
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