Thematic Bible: Captive bondservants shared by priests and levites


Thematic Bible



Exact a tribute for Yahweh from the men of the war, those who went out to the battle, one from five hundred persons, and from the cattle and from the male donkeys and from the flock; take from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest [as] a contribution to Yahweh. From half of the {Israelites}, take one [share] drawn by lot from the fifty from the humans, from the cattle, from the male donkeys, from the flock, from all the domestic animals, and give them to the Levities who keep the responsibilities of the tabernacle of Yahweh." read more.
Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Yahweh commanded Moses. Thus the war-booty that remained of the plunder that the people of the battle plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand flocks [of sheep], seventy-two thousand cattle, sixty-one thousand male donkeys, and the life of humankind, from the women who did not {have sexual intercourse with a man}, all the persons were thirty-two thousand. The half of the share that was going out to the battle: the number of the flock [of sheep] was thee hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred; the tribute to Yahweh from the flock was six hundred and seventy-five; and the cattle were thirty-six thousand; and the tribute to Yahweh [was] seventy-two. Of the male donkeys there were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute to Yahweh was sixty-one; the humans were sixteen thousand, and the tribute to Yahweh [was] thirty-two persons. And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. From the half of the {Israelites}, which Moses divided from the men who were fighting, the half that belonged to the community was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred from the flock, and thirty-six thousand cattle, and thirty thousand five hundred male donkeys, and sixteen thousand humans. From the half that belonged to the {Israelites}, Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.