“From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.”
Numbers 31:47 (BSB)
Context Reading
4530,500 donkeys, 46and 16,000 people. 47From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him. 48Then the officers who were over the units of the army — the commanders of thousands and of hundreds — approached Moses 49and said, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.