Catholic Public Domain Version

Numbers 31:27-38 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

27. And you shall divide the prey equally, among those who went out to war and fought, and among the remainder of the multitude.

28. And you shall separate a portion for the Lord from the portion of those who fought and were in the battle: one soul out of five hundred, as much from humans, as from oxen and donkeys and sheep.

29. And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, because these are the first-fruits of the Lord.

30. Likewise, from the half of the portion belonging to the sons of Israel, you shall receive the fiftieth head of humans, and of oxen, and donkeys, and sheep, and of all living things, and you shall give these to the Levites who stand watch over the care of the tabernacle of the Lord."

31. And Moses and Eleazar did just as the Lord had instructed.

32. Now the prey which the army had seized was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

33. seventy-two thousand oxen,

34. sixty-one thousand donkeys,

35. and thirty-two thousand human lives, of the female sex, who had not known men.

36. And one half of the portion was given to those who had been in the battle: three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep.

37. From these, for the portion of the Lord, there were accounted: six hundred seventy-five sheep;

38. and from the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen;