Numbers 31:42

"And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred, (now the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred sheep, and thirty and six thousand oxen, and thirty thousand and five hundred asses, and sixteen thousand persons), even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses."

Again, we are amused at the verbose manner of presenting these figures; and, as frequently pointed out, this was the style of ancient writings dating from about the mid-second millennium B.C. This whole paragraph says only that the people's half (which was identical, of course, with the soldiers' half was taxed one out of fifty for the benefit of the Levites!