23. everything that can go through the fire, you will make it go through the fire, and it will be clean, but some of it will be purified with the water of purification, and all that cannot pass through the fire you will make go through the water.
24. You will wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp.”
25. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
26. “Take the count of the plunder that was taken, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest, and the chief of the fathers of the assembly.
27. And divide the prey into two parts between those that took the war on themselves, who went out to battle, and between all the assembly.
28. And levy a tribute to the Lord from the fighting men of Israel who went out to battle: one person out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the sheep;
29. take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord.
30. Of the half of the children of Israel, you will take one portion of fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them to the Levites, who keep the guard of the tabernacle of the Lord.”
31. Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.
32. The plunder, being the rest of the prey, which the fighting men of Israel had caught, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
33. seventy-two thousand oxen,
34. and sixty-one thousand donkeys,
35. and thirty-two thousand people in all, of women who had not known a man by lying with him.
36. The half, which was the portion of those that went out to war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep.
37. And the Lord’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.
38. The oxen were thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord’s tribute was seventy-two.
39. The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the Lord’s tribute was sixty-one.