Numbers 31:32
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,
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the Lord,.... The whole amount, weight, and value of it put together:
even of the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Compare Num 31:11, and render “And the prey” (i. e., the live prey) “in addition to the spoil which the men of war seized, etc.” The “spoil” is described in Num 31:50. The number of sheep, beeves,…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
over and above the booty the remainder of the booty. The revisers connected the words with Num 31:31 (see marg. there), but that is concerned only with the private looting of gold ornaments. Here -the…