And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
Persons ... of women ... х wªnepesh (H5315) 'aadaam (H120) min (H4480) hanaashiym (H802)] - and the human persons of women. Adam, being the generic name of the human race, is here applied to women only [cf. hee (G3588) anthroopos (G444), a woman, 'Herodotus,' b. 1:, ch. 60; Septuagint, psuchai anthroopoon apo toon gunaikoon]. Michaelis thinks that the young women and cattle appropriated to the Levites (Numbers 31:47) were not given to them, but to the sanctuary (cf. Joshua 9:3; 26:27; 1 Samuel 2:22).