Numbers 31

35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

37 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

38 The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two.

39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.

40 The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons.

41 Ref Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

42 Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred

43 (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

44 and thirty-six thousand oxen,

45 and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

46 and sixteen thousand persons),

47 Ref even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

48 The officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;

49 Ref and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.

50 Ref We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.

51 Ref Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all worked jewels.

52 All the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.

53 Ref ([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

54 Ref 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 Yahweh.

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