⁴⁸ Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders over thousands and the commanders over hundreds, approached Moses ⁴⁹ and said to him,^[a] “Your servants have taken a count^[b] of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority,^[c] and not one is missing. ⁵⁰ So we have brought as an offering for the Lord what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves^[d] before the Lord.”^{[e] 51} Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all of it in the form of ornaments. ⁵² All the gold of the offering they offered up to the Lord from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds weighed 16,750 shekels.^{[f] 53} Each soldier had taken plunder for himself. ⁵⁴ So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders^[g] of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial^[h] for the Israelites before the Lord.