Numbers 31:40-42

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴⁰ The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the Lord’s tribute was thirty-two persons. ⁴¹ And Moses gave the tribute, which was the offering for the Lord, to Elea′zar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁴² From the people of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had gone to war—