48. The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, approached Moses
49. and told him, “Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.
50. So we have presented to the Lord an offering of the gold articles each man found — armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces — to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”
51. Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.
52. All the gold of the contribution they offered to the Lord, from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, was 420 pounds.
53. Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.
54. Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.