Catholic Public Domain Version
"and from the sixteen thousand persons, "
— Numbers 31:46, Catholic Public Domain Version
Yet truly, from the one half portion which fell to the remainder of the multitude, that is, from the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
and from the thirty-six thousand oxen,
and from the thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
and from the sixteen thousand persons,
Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites who stand watch at the tabernacle of the Lord, just as the Lord had instructed.
And when the leaders of the army, and the tribunes, and the centurions had approached Moses, they said:
“We, your servants, have taken a census of the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and indeed not one was lacking.