Numbers 31:35

And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

34Sixty-one thousand asses:

36And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:14Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

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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