Numbers 31:35
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NRSV
32 The booty remaining from the spoil that the troops had taken totaled six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 seventy-two thousand oxen, 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys, 35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, women who had not known a man by sleeping with him.
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35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
This passage is a significant example of the usage of the Hebrew word adam.
These thirty-two thousand persons are literally souls of adam(s) (נֶ֣פֶשׁ אָדָ֔ם) and in context are clearly women. This illustrates the breadth of meaning that "adam" the common noun has. See also The human race.
