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Numbers 31:23-40 Amplified Bible (AMP)

23. Everything that can stand fire, you shall make go through fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water of impurity; and all that cannot stand fire [such as fabrics] you shall pass through water.

24. And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and you shall be clean; then you shall come into the camp.

25. And the Lord said to Moses,

26. Take the count of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation.

27. Divide the booty into two [equal] parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.

28. And levy a tribute to the Lord from the warriors who went to battle, one out of every 500 of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, and the flocks.

29. Take [this tribute] from the warriors' half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord.

30. And from the Israelites' half [of the booty] you shall take one out of every fifty of the persons, the oxen, the donkeys, the flocks, and of all livestock, and give them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

31. And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

32. The prey, besides the booty which the men of war took, was 675,000 sheep,

33. And 72,000 cattle,

34. And 61,000 donkeys,

35. And 32,000 persons in all, of the women who were virgins.

36. And the half share, the portion of those who went to war, was: 337,500 sheep,

37. And the Lord's tribute of the sheep was 675;

38. The cattle were 36,000, of which the Lord's tribute was 72;

39. The donkeys were 30,500, of which the Lord's tribute was 61;

40. The persons were 16,000, of whom the Lord's tribute was 32 persons.