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Numbers 31:32–35

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31:32The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men28 had gathered29 was 675,000 sheep, 31:3372,000 cattle, 31:3461,000 donkeys, 31:35and 32,000 young women who had never had sexual intercourse with a man.30

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  1. 28 Heb “people.”
  2. 29 Heb “had plundered.”
  3. 30 Here again we encounter one of the difficulties of the book, the use of the large numbers. Only twelve thousand soldiers fought the Midianites, but they brought back this amount of plunder, including 32,000 girls. Until a solution for numbers in the book can be found, or the current translation confirmed, one must remain cautious in interpretation.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The captives remaining from the plunder the army had taken totaled:

675,000 sheep and goats,

72,000 cattle,

61,000 donkeys,

and 32,000 people, all the females who had not gone to bed with a man.

NLTNew Living Translation

The plunder remaining from everything the fighting men had taken totaled 675,000 sheep and goats, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and 32,000 virgin girls.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Thus the war-booty that remained of the plunder that the people of the battle plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand flocks of sheep, seventy-two thousand cattle, sixty-one thousand male donkeys, and the life of humankind, from the women who did not have sexual intercourse with a man, all the persons were thirty-two thousand.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, And threescore and one thousand asses, And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.