²⁶ “Take all the booty, both people and animals, you, El‘azar the cohen and the leaders of clans in the community; ²⁷ and divide the booty into two parts: half for the experienced soldiers who went out to battle, and half for the rest of the community. ²⁸ From the portion of the soldiers who went out to battle, levy a tax for Adonai consisting of one-five-hundredth of the persons, cattle, donkeys and sheep;