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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Lift the heads of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, you and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation.

And you shall divide the prey between those skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation.

And you shall levy a tribute to Jehovah from the men of war who went out to the battle: one body out of five hundred, of men, and of the herd, and of the asses, and of the flock,

you shall take from their half, and you shall give to Eleazar the priest as the heave offering of Jehovah.

And from the sons of Israel's half, you shall take one portion out of fifty, of man, and of the herd, and of the asses, and of the flock, of all the livestock, and you shall give them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle ofJehovah.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

And the prey, the rest of the spoil which the people of the army plundered, was six hundred and seventy five thousand sheep,

and seventy two thousand oxen,

sixty one thousand of the asses;

and of human beings, of the women who had not known a man by lying with a male, the persons were thirty two thousand.

And the half, the portion of those who went out to the war, the number of the flock was three hundred and thirty seven thousand, five hundred.

And the tribute to Jehovah of the sheep was six hundred and seventy five,

and the oxen, thirty six thousand; and their tribute to Jehovah, seventy two;

and the asses thirty thousand, five hundred; and their tribute to Jehovah, sixty one;

and the human beings sixteen thousand; and their tribute to Jehovah, thirty two persons.

And Moses gave the tribute, the heave offering of Jehovah, to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

And of the sons of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men who warred:

even the congregation's half was three hundred and thirty seven thousand, five hundred of the flock;

and of the oxen, thirty six thousand;

and thirty thousand, five hundred asses;

and sixteen thousand human beings.

Moses took from the sons of Israel's half the one portion from the fifty of man and of animal. And he gave them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.