Numbers 31:35

And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.

In Context

34And sixty-one thousand asses;

36And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:14But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:26-48

Distribution of the Spoil. ( b. c. 1452.) 25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: 27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: 28 And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of… Read the whole commentary →

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