39. The donkeys were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the Lord’s tribute was sixty-one.
40. The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the Lord’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
41. Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
42. Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
43. (now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
44. thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
45. thirty thousand and five hundred donkeys,
46. and sixteen thousand persons),
47. even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the Lord’s tabernacle, as the Lord commanded Moses.
48. The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.
49. They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.
50. We have brought the Lord’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the Lord.”