You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the families of the congregation take a count of the booty that was captured, both of man and of animal. Divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and the entire congregation. read more.
Levy a tax for Jehovah from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep. Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to Jehovah. From the sons of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah. Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Jehovah commanded Moses. The booty that remained from the spoil the men of war had plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, and seventy-two thousand cattle, and sixty-one thousand donkeys, and of human beings, of the women who had not known man intimately, all the persons were thirty-two thousand. The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred. Jehovah's levy of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. There were thirty-six thousand cattle, from which Jehovah's levy was seventy-two. There were thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, from which Jehovah's levy was sixty-one. There were sixteen thousand human beings, from whom Jehovah's levy was thirty-two persons. Moses gave the levy that was Jehovah's offering to Eleazar the priest, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses. And from the Israelites half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war. The congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, and thirty-six thousand cattle, and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, and the human beings were sixteen thousand. Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals from the Israelite's half. He gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, just as Jehovah commanded Moses.