Bible Strands
Numbers 31:32
and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses and Eleazar oversee the post-campaign accounting of spoils from the battle against Midian. This verse records the specific inventory of sheep that remained after the army's seizure.
The words — The text employs יֶתֶר (Yeter), meaning remainder, and בָּז (Baz), meaning plunder, to denote the surviving portion of the spoils. These terms establish the inventory as a calculated residue of the soldiers' conquest.
The thread — The enumeration pattern continues directly in Numbers 31:33 with the cattle count, maintaining the same military accounting structure. This sequential listing anchors the verse within the broader campaign report.
Why it lands — The verse demands precise attention to the scale of the material outcome rather than the combat itself. It requires the reader to recognize how conquest is measured through systematic inventory and division.
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The Hebrew words
King 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,