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29 Take it from the fighting men’s half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as an elevated offering[a] to the Lord. 30 Also from the Israelites’ half, you will take one out of every fifty from the people, the cattle, the donkeys, the flocks, and all the animals, and give them to the Levites, who attend to the duties at the Lord’s Dwelling.”

31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:29 The term elevated offering refers to the gestures with which these offerings were presented. The name does not mean that every item offered was literally elevated.