Numbers 31:47-49

Revised Standard Version

⁴⁷ from the people of Israel’s half Moses took one of every fifty, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had charge of the tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁴⁸ Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses, ⁴⁹ and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.