Numbers 31:22-54 ▼

22 only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead,

23 everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, but it shall be purified with water for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water.

24 And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.”

25 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

26 “You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation take a count of the loot that was captured, both of man and of animal;

27 and divide the loot between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.

28 And you shall exact a levy for Yahweh 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;

29 take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as a contribution to Yahweh.

30 And 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 Yahweh.”

31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

32 Now the loot that remained from the plunder which the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep,

33 and 72,000 cattle,

34 and 61,000 donkeys,

35 and of human beings, of the women who had not known man intimately, all the persons were 32,000.

36 And the half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500;

37 and the levy of Yahweh from the sheep was 675;

38 and the cattle were 36,000, from which the levy of Yahweh was 72;

39 and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the levy of Yahweh was 61;

40 and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the levy of Yahweh was 32 persons.

41 And Moses gave the levy, which was the contribution to Yahweh, to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

42 As for the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war—

43 now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep,

44 and 36,000 cattle,

45 and 30,500 donkeys,

46 and the human beings were 16,000—

47 and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses,

49 and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

50 So we have brought near as an offering to Yahweh what each man found—articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before Yahweh.”

51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of crafted articles.

52 And all the gold from the contribution offering which they raised up in offering to Yahweh, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.

53 The men of war had taken plunder, every man for himself.

54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before Yahweh.