Numbers 31:40-42
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
40 and sixteen thousand persons, of whom thirty-two persons fell as tax to the Lord. 41 Moses gave the taxes contributed to the Lord to Eleazar the priest, exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses.
42 As for the Israelites’ half, which Moses had taken from the men who had fought—
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