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47 From the half that belonged to the Israelites,[a] Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans[b] and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

48 Then the leaders of the thousands of the army, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, approached Moses, 49 and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken count[c] of the men of war who were in our charge,[d] and no man is missing from us.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:47 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 31:47 Hebrew “human”
  3. Numbers 31:49 Literally “lifted up the head”
  4. Numbers 31:49 Literally “in our hand”