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30 From half of the Israelites,[a] take one share drawn by lot from the fifty from the humans,[b] from the cattle, from the male donkeys, from the flock, from all the domestic animals,[c] and give them to the Levities who keep the responsibilities of the tabernacle of Yahweh.”

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  1. Numbers 31:30 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 31:30 Hebrew “human”
  3. Numbers 31:30 Hebrew “animal”

42 From the half of the Israelites,[a] which Moses divided from the men who were fighting, 43 the half that belonged to the community was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred from the flock, 44 and thirty-six thousand cattle, 45 and thirty thousand five hundred male donkeys, 46 and sixteen thousand humans.[b] 47 From the half that belonged to the Israelites,[c] Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans[d] and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:42 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 31:46 Hebrew “human”
  3. Numbers 31:47 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  4. Numbers 31:47 Hebrew “human”