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Numbers 31:36-42 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

36. The half-share that fell to those who had gone out on the campaign was in number: three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

37. of which six hundred and seventy-five fell as tax to the Lord;

38. thirty-six thousand oxen, of which seventy-two fell as tax to the Lord;

39. thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, of which sixty-one fell as tax to the Lord;

40. and sixteen thousand persons, of whom thirty-two persons fell as tax to the Lord.

41. Moses gave the taxes contributed to the Lord to Eleazar the priest, exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses.

42. As for the Israelites’ half, which Moses had taken from the men who had fought—

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