Counting and dividing the plunder by rule
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ [houses] of the congregation;
and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks:
take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s heave-offering.
Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tent of Yahweh.
Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
and seventy-two thousand oxen,
and seventy-one thousand donkeys,
and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.
The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred
(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
and thirty-six thousand oxen,
and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
and sixteen thousand persons),
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 kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
