And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
The count belongs to the divine judgment executed against Midian for luring Israel into apostasy and immorality. Among the Midianite captives taken in that campaign, thirty-two thousand were young women who had never engaged in sexual intercourse. All the remaining captive women were ordered to be killed, as those who were most culpable for the seduction and most perilous to Israel's purity.
The count belongs to the divine judgment executed against Midian for luring Israel into apostasy and immorality. Among the Midianite captives taken in that campaign, thirty-two thousand were young women who had never engaged in sexual intercourse. All the remaining captive women were ordered to be killed, as those who were most culpable for the seduction and most perilous to Israel's purity.