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Selected Verse: Numbers 31:53 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Nu 31:53 Strong Concordance (For the men [0582] of war [06635] had taken spoil [0962], every man [0376] for himself.)
  King James (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
This verse seems to imply that the soldiers, as distinct from the officers (compare Num 31:49), did not make any offering from their plunder. Of course besides the gold there would be much spoil of less precious materials; see Num 31:20, Num 31:22.
 
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22 Only the gold [02091], and the silver [03701], the brass [05178], the iron [01270], the tin [0913], and the lead [05777],
20 And purify [02398] all your raiment [0899], and all that is made [03627] of skins [05785], and all work [04639] of goats [05795]' hair, and all things made [03627] of wood [06086].
49 And they said [0559] unto Moses [04872], Thy servants [05650] have taken [05375] the sum [07218] of the men [0582] of war [04421] which are under our charge [03027], and there lacketh [06485] not one man [0376] of us.