30 But of the half of the children of Israel thou shalt take [a]one, taken out of fifty, both of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the sheep, even of all the cattle, and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, which have the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord.

31 And Moses and Eleazar the Priest did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

32 And the booty, to wit, the rest of the prey which the men of war had spoiled, was six hundred seventy and five thousand sheep,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:30 The Israelites which had not been at war, of every fiftieth paid one to the Lord: and the soldiers one of every five hundredth.

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