Lexham English Bible

Numbers 31:39-50 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

39. Of the male donkeys there were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute to Yahweh was sixty-one;

40. the humans were sixteen thousand, and the tribute to Yahweh was thirty-two persons.

41. And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

42. From the half of the Israelites, which Moses divided from the men who were fighting,

43. the half that belonged to the community was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred from the flock,

44. and thirty-six thousand cattle,

45. and thirty thousand five hundred male donkeys,

46. and sixteen thousand humans.

47. From the half that belonged to the Israelites, Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

48. Then the leaders of the thousands of the army, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, approached Moses,

49. and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken count of the men of war who were in our charge, and no man is missing from us.

50. So we brought the offering of Yahweh, what each man found, objects of gold, bangles, bracelets, rings, earrings, and female ornaments, to make atonement for ourselves before Yahweh.”