28. “You must exact a tribute for the Lord from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.
29. You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.
30. From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep – from every kind of animal – and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle.”
31. So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.
32. The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,
33. 72,000 cattle,
34. 61,000 donkeys,
35. and 32,000 young women who had never had sexual intercourse with a man.
36. The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;
37. the Lord’s tribute from the sheep was 675.
38. The cattle numbered 36,000; the Lord’s tribute was 72.