Numbers 31
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Numbers 31:30-47

30From the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who 1keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.” 31Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

32Now the booty that remained from the spoil which the 2men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep, 33and 72,000 cattle, 34and 61,000 donkeys, 35and of human beings, of the women who had not known man 3intimately, all the persons were 32,000.

36The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500, 37and the Lord’s levy of the sheep was 675; 38and the cattle were 36,000, from which the Lord’s levy was 72; 39and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the Lord’s levy was 61; 40and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the Lord’s levy was 32 persons. 41Moses gave the levy which was the Lord’s offering to Eleazar the priest, just 4as the Lord had commanded Moses.

42As for the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses 5separated from the men who had gone to war-- 43now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep, 44and 36,000 cattle, 45and 30,500 donkeys, 46and the human beings were 16,000-- 47and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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Notes

  1. 1. Numbers 31:30 Num 3:7, 8, 25, 26, 31, 36, 37; 18:3, 4 ↩
  2. 2. Numbers 31:32 Lit people ↩
  3. 3. Numbers 31:35 Lit by lying with a man ↩
  4. 4. Numbers 31:41 Num 5:9, 10; 18:19 ↩
  5. 5. Numbers 31:42 Or divided ↩

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