26 You, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community’s households must take an inventory of the valuable property and the captives, both human and animals,
27 and divide the valuable property between the warriors who went into battle and the entire community.
28 You will offer as tribute to the Lord from each warrior who went into battle one living being in five hundred, whether human, oxen, donkeys, or flocks.
29 Take it from the warriors’ half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a gift offering to the Lord.
30 But from the Israelites’ half you will take one out of every fifty, whether from human, oxen, donkeys, or flock—all the animals. You will give them to the Levites who carry out the duties of the Lord’s dwelling.
31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.
32 The valuable property remaining from the spoils of war that the people of the army had taken was 675,000 sheep,