“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 the booty, being above and beside the tribute of the LORD, which the men of war had caught, was three hundred thousand and seventy and five thousand sheep — the inventory of captured livestock now follows, beginning with the vast number of sheep (375,000). These numbers (totaling hundreds of thousands) suggest either symbolic hyperbole reflecting the magnitude of plunder or record-keeping based on ancient census documents, reinforcing that Midian was wealthy in pastoral herds.
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