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Numbers 31:29-48 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

29. And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.

30. Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

31. And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.

32. And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

33. Seventy-two thousand oxen,

34. Sixty-one thousand asses:

35. And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.

36. And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

37. Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy-five sheep.

38. And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen:

39. Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses:

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

41. And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,

42. Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the battle.

43. But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

44. And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,

45. And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,

46. And out of the sixteen thousand persons,

47. Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that watched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.

48. And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and centurions were come to Moses, they said:

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