Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.

and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders<n id="1" /> of the community, chosen from the assembly,<n id="2" /> famous men.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, &#8220;This is the ordinance of the law that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses:

and said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Your servants have taken a count<n id="2" /> of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority,<n id="3" /> and not one is missing.

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging<n id="1" /> report of the land they had investigated, saying, &#8220;The land that we passed through<n id="2" /> to investigate is a land that devours<n id="3" /> its inhabitants.<n id="4" /> All the people we saw there<n id="5" /> are of great stature.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must exact<n id="1" /> a tribute for the <sc>Lordsc> from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.