Numbers 31:48-54

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁴⁸ The officers who were over the units of a thousand in the army—the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds—approached Moses. ⁴⁹ They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken a head count of the fighting men who were under our command, and not one of them is missing. ⁵⁰ So we have brought as an offering to the Lord the gold items which every man acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

⁵¹ Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from them, all the crafted items. ⁵² All the gold from the elevated offering that the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds lifted up to the Lord amounted to 16,750 shekels.^{[a] 53} Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself. ⁵⁴ Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the commanders of thousands and hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.