Numbers 31:41
Good News Translation
So Moses gave Eleazar the tax as a special contribution to the LORD, as the LORD had commanded.

New Revised Standard Version
Moses gave the tribute, the offering for the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

New American Bible
Moses gave the taxes contributed to the LORD to Eleazar the priest, exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,

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And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,

Eleazar

Numbers 31:29-31 And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord. . . .

Numbers 18:8,19 And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances. . . .

Matthew 10:10 Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat.

1 Corinthians 9:10-14 Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth, should plough in hope and he that thrasheth, in hope to receive fruit. . . .

Galatians 6:6 And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things.

1 Timothy 5:17 Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Hebrews 7:4-6,9-12 Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithes out of the principal things. . . .

Context
Division of the Spoils
40Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls. 41And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,42Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle.…
Cross References
Numbers 5:9
All the firstfruits also, which the children of Israel offer, belong to the priest:

Numbers 5:10
And whatsoever is offered into the sanctuary by every one, and is delivered into the hands of the priest, it shall be his.

Numbers 18:19
All the firstfruits of the sanctuary which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.

Numbers 31:40
Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.

Numbers 31:42
Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle.

Numbers 31:40
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