two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
KJV
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
Commentary
Commentary
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes,
and twenty rams. And it seems this proportion of one he goat to ten she goats, and of one ram to ten ewes, is a proper one, and what has been so judged in other times and countries (x).
(x) Varro de rustica, l. 2. c. 3. apud Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 43. col. 439. &c. 53. col. 648.
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