Numbers 31:48

"And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses; and they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. And we have brought Jehovah's oblation, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Jehovah. And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels. And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Jehovah, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. (For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah."

Whitelaw noted that we should not be surprised by such enormous quantities of gold and jewels captured from a race of nomadic wanderers. "It is still the case with peoples of that area and under circumstances far less favorable."[28] The same author also calculated the weight of the gold mentioned here as some 11,000 ounces (Troy).[29] At the current price of gold $325.00 per ounce, the value of this free-will offering was more than $3,500,000.00!