Numbers 31:32-54 ▼

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

33 seventy-two thousand cattle,

34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,

35 and of captive people, of the women who had not known a man intimately, in all were thirty-two thousand people.

36 The half, the share of those who went to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500,

37 the LORD’S tribute tax of the sheep was 675;

38 the cattle were thirty-six thousand, from which the LORD’S tribute tax was seventy-two;

39 the donkeys were 30,500, from which the LORD’S tribute tax was sixty-one;

40 and the captive people were sixteen thousand, from whom the LORD’S tribute tax was thirty-two persons.

41 And Moses gave the tribute tax, which was the LORD’S offering, to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD 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 thirty-six thousand cattle,

45 30,500 donkeys,

46 and the captive people were sixteen thousand—

47 from the sons of Israel’s half Moses took one drawn from every fifty, both of people and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, approached Moses,

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

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

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

52 All the gold of the offering which they offered up to the LORD, 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 brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD.