Numbers 31
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Numbers 31:25-39

25The Lord said to Moses,

26‘You and Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the family clans must count all the people and animals that you took in the battle.

27Give one half of all those things to the soldiers who went to fight the war against the Midianites. Give the other half to the rest of the people.

28From the half which belongs to the soldiers, keep one part out of every 500. Do that with the Midianite prisoners, the cows, the donkeys and the sheep. Those parts will be for the Lord.

29Give those to Eleazar the priest. He will offer them to the Lord.

30From the half that belongs to the people, keep one part out of every 50. Do that with the Midianite prisoners, the cows, the donkeys and the sheep. Those parts will be for the Levites who take care of the Lord's special tent.’

31Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord said.

32The soldiers had brought from the battle: 675,000 sheep,

3372,000 cows,

3461,000 donkeys

35and 32,000 young women who had not had sex with a man.

36The soldiers' half included 337,500 sheep.

37So there were 675 sheep for the Lord.

38The soldiers' half also included 36,000 cows. So there were 72 cows for the Lord.

39The soldiers' half also included 30,500 donkeys. So there were 61 donkeys for the Lord.

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