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Numbers 31:24-36 English Standard Version (ESV)

24. You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp.”

25. The Lord said to Moses,

26. “Take the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation,

27. and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.

28. And levy for the Lord a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.

29. Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the Lord.

30. And from the people of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the Lord.”

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

32. Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,

33. 72,000 cattle,

34. 61,000 donkeys,

35. and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.

36. And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,

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