Numbers 31:25–54

²⁵And the Lord said to Moses:

²⁶Take the sum of the things that were taken both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude:

²⁷And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude.

²⁸And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of persons as of oxen and asses and sheep.

²⁹And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.

³⁰Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

³¹And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.

³²And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

³³Seventy-two thousand oxen,

³⁴Sixty-one thousand asses:

³⁵And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.

³⁶And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

³⁷Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy five sheep.

³⁸And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen:

³⁹Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses:

⁴⁰Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.

⁴¹And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,

⁴²Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle.

⁴³But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

⁴⁴And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,

⁴⁵And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,

⁴⁶And out of the sixteen thousand persons,

⁴⁷Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that watched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.

⁴⁸And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and centurions were come to Moses, they said:

⁴⁹We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting.

⁵⁰Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

⁵¹And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers kinds,

⁵²In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions.

⁵³For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.

⁵⁴And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.