Numbers 31:46-48

The Voice

^42-46 The general community received the same amounts: 337,500 sheep, 36,000 large oxen, 30,500 donkeys, and 16,000 people. ⁴⁷ Out of the general community’s half, Moses took one out of every 50 of any particular item—persons or animals—and gave it to the Levites, the ones who were in charge of maintaining God’s tent just as he had been told by the Eternal One. ⁴⁸ Then the military officers of all ranks approached Moses with yet more stuff.