²⁵The Lord said to Moses, ²⁶“You, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the family groups should take a count of the goods, the men, and the animals that were taken. ²⁷Then divide those possessions between the soldiers who went to war and the rest of the people. ²⁸From the soldiers who went to war, take a tax for the Lord of one item out of every five hundred. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, or sheep. ²⁹Take it from the soldiers’ half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as the Lord’s share. ³⁰And from the people’s half, take one item out of every fifty. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals. Give that to the Levites, who take care of the Lord’s Holy Tent.” ³¹So Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord commanded Moses.

³²There remained from what the soldiers had taken 675,000 sheep, ³³72,000 cattle, ³⁴61,000 donkeys, ³⁵and 32,000 women who had not had sexual relations with a man. ³⁶The soldiers who went to war got 337,000 sheep, ³⁷and they gave 675 of them to the Lord. ³⁸They got 36,000 cattle, and they gave 72 of them to the Lord. ³⁹They got 30,500 donkeys, and they gave 61 of them to the Lord. ⁴⁰They got 16,000 people, and they gave 32 of them to the Lord. ⁴¹Moses gave the Lord’s share to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded him.

⁴²Moses separated the people’s half from the soldiers’ half. ⁴³The people got 337,500 sheep, ⁴⁴36,000 cattle, ⁴⁵30,500 donkeys, ⁴⁶and 16,000 people. ⁴⁷From the people’s half Moses took one item out of every fifty for the Lord. This included the animals and the people. Then he gave them to the Levites, who took care of the Lord’s Holy Tent. This was what the Lord had commanded Moses.

⁴⁸Then the officers of the army, the commanders of a thousand men and commanders of a hundred men, came to Moses. ⁴⁹They told Moses, “We, your servants, have counted our soldiers under our command, and not one of them is missing. ⁵⁰So we have brought the Lord a gift of the gold things that each of us found: arm bands, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces. These are to remove our sins so we will belong to the Lord.”

⁵¹So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, which had been made into all kinds of objects. ⁵²The commanders of a thousand men and the commanders of a hundred men gave the Lord the gold, and all of it together weighed about 420 pounds; ⁵³each soldier had taken something for himself. ⁵⁴Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of a thousand men and the commanders of a hundred men. Then they put it in the Meeting Tent as a memorial before the Lord for the people of Israel.

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