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The Book of Numbers, Chapter 31, Verse 26

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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
King James Version
Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
American Standard Version
Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;
New English Translation
“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.
World English Bible
"Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;
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And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
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And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
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Take [it] of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, [for] an heave offering of the LORD.
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And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And the booty, [being] the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
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And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
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And threescore and one thousand asses,
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And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
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And the half, [which was] the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep: