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46 and sixteen thousand humans.[a] 47 From the half that belonged to the Israelites,[b] Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans[c] and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

48 Then the leaders of the thousands of the army, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, approached Moses,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:46 Hebrew “human”
  2. Numbers 31:47 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Numbers 31:47 Hebrew “human”