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Numbers 31:29-47 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

29. And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, because these are the first-fruits of the Lord.

30. Likewise, from the half of the portion belonging to the sons of Israel, you shall receive the fiftieth head of humans, and of oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, and of all living things, and you shall give these to the Levites who stand watch over the care of the tabernacle of the Lord."

31. And Moses and Eleazar did just as the Lord had instructed.

32. Now the prey which the army had seized was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

33. seventy-two thousand oxen,

34. sixty-one thousand donkeys,

35. and thirty-two thousand human lives, of the female sex, who had not known men.

36. And one half of the portion was given to those who had been in the battle: three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep.

37. From these, for the portion of the Lord, there were accounted: six hundred seventy-five sheep;

38. and from the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen;

39. from the thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, sixty-one donkeys.

40. From the sixteen thousand human souls, there fell to the portion of the Lord thirty-two souls.

41. And Moses delivered the number of the first-fruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, just as had been commanded of him,

42. from the one half portion belonging to the sons of Israel, which he had separated from the portion of those who had been in the battle.

43. Yet truly, from the one half portion which fell to the remainder of the multitude, that is, from the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

44. and from the thirty-six thousand oxen,

45. and from the thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

46. and from the sixteen thousand persons,

47. Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites who stand watch at the tabernacle of the Lord, just as the Lord had instructed.

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