THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 31:52 in context
Numbers 31:49–54
49
They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.
50
We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.”
51
Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.
53
The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
54
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
Source notes
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- A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 16,750 shekels is about 167.5 kilograms or about 368.5 pounds.
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