KJV King James Version
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
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Numbers 31:33
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
72,000 cattle,
WEB World English Bible
and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
ASV American Standard Version
and threescore and twelve thousand oxen,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and of the herd two and seventy thousand;
Surrounding context — Numbers 31
30 And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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,
33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
36 And the half, [which was] the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
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