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Numbers 31:30-52

Numbers 31:30-52 AMP

From the Israelites’ half [of the spoil] you shall take one out of every fifty of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, the flocks, and of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who are in charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.” Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the LORD had commanded Moses. The plunder that remained from the spoil of war which the warriors had taken, was 675,000 sheep, and 72,000 cattle, and 61,000 donkeys, and 32,000 persons in all, of the [Midianite] women who were virgins. The half share, the portion of those who went to war, was 337,500 sheep in number, and the LORD’S levy (tax) of the sheep was 675; the cattle were 36,000, from which the LORD’S levy was 72; the donkeys were 30,500, from which the LORD’S levy was 61; the persons were 16,000, from whom the LORD’S levy was 32 persons. Moses gave the levy which was the LORD’S offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. As for the Israelites’ half, which Moses separated from that of the warriors— now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep, and 36,000 cattle, and 30,500 donkeys, and 16,000 people— and from the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty, both of persons and animals, and gave them to the Levites, who were in charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, approached Moses, and they said to him, “Your servants have counted the warriors under our command, and not one man of us is missing. So we have brought as an offering to the LORD what each man obtained—articles of gold, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.” Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all the handmade articles. All the gold of the offering which they presented to the LORD from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds was 16,750 shekels.

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