New American Bible, Revised Edition

Numbers 31:26-40 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

26. With the help of Eleazar the priest and of the heads of the ancestral houses of the community, inventory all the spoils captured, human being and beast alike;

27. then divide the spoils between the warriors who went on the campaign and the whole community.

28. You will levy a tax for the Lord on the soldiers who went on the campaign: one out of every five hundred persons, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

29. From their half you will take it and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the Lord.

30. From the Israelites’ half you will take one captive from every fifty human beings, oxen, donkeys, and sheep—all the animals—and give them to the Levites, who perform the duties of the Lord’s tabernacle.

31. So Moses and Eleazar the priest did this, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

32. This plunder, what was left of the loot which the troops had taken, amounted to six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

33. seventy-two thousand oxen,

34. sixty-one thousand donkeys,

35. and thirty-two thousand women who had not had sexual relations.

36. The half-share that fell to those who had gone out on the campaign was in number: three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

37. of which six hundred and seventy-five fell as tax to the Lord;

38. thirty-six thousand oxen, of which seventy-two fell as tax to the Lord;

39. thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, of which sixty-one fell as tax to the Lord;

40. and sixteen thousand persons, of whom thirty-two persons fell as tax to the Lord.