You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.

From the Israelites' half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep -- from every kind of animal -- and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the Lord's tabernacle."

From the Israelites' half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,