Bible Strands
Numbers 31:42
From the Israelites’ half, which Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — The narrative records Moses’ administrative division of war plunder between the congregation and the Levitical priesthood following the campaign against Midian.
The words — חָצָה (cha.Tzah) = he had divided; מִֽמַּחֲצִית (mi./ma.cha.Tzit) = from the half.
The thread — The structural division of spoils into two portions recurs in Numbers 31:27 and 31:32, maintaining a consistent accounting framework for the campaign’s material yield.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to observe how designated portions are explicitly separated for communal and priestly obligations. It establishes that material distribution follows fixed commands rather than discretionary allocation.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,