Numbers 31:32 · World English Bible
Numbers 31:32 Meaning Now the Plunder
Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
What does Numbers 31:32 mean?
A vast count of divine thoughts is gathered as spoil once the inner warfare has ceased. The sheep are the gentle god-thoughts, and their enormous number is what remains, the rest, after the fighting parts of a person have done their taking.
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A vast count of divine thoughts is gathered as spoil once the inner warfare has ceased. The sheep are the gentle god-thoughts, and their enormous number is what remains, the rest, after the fighting parts of a person have done their taking. The number 70 within the tally carries the sense of an infinity of forgiveness and divine intervention, so the plunder is not mere conquest but a settling into abundance once the striving quiets. The reckoning belongs to men of war, the aggressive faculties, yet what they hand over is a peaceable flock beyond counting.
When the battling in a person finally rests, what is left is an immense herd of divine thoughts, more than the warring mind ever set out to seize.
Sheep: the gentle divine thoughts a person accumulates within Men of war: the aggressive, conquering faculties of the mind 70: the number carrying infinity of forgiveness and divine intervention The rest: what remains and settles into a person once the inner fighting has ceased
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Live Numbers 31:32 today
- End an argument you are having with yourself. Drop the loop about the thing you said last week, and sit for a minute with what is actually in front of you. The quiet after is bigger than the win would have been.
- Let someone else have the last word today. In a group chat, a family dinner, a text you were drafting in your head, just stop. See how much more there is to talk about once you are not defending anything.
- In traffic or a slow checkout line, give up the fight for the better lane. Put your hands down and look around. You will find you were already fine, and you have more time than you thought.
What would be left in you today if the arguing stopped?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 48
The way is reached by letting go, not by piling up. Stop striving and you find yourself holding more than all the grasping ever gave you.
Buddhism
When craving quiets, what remains is not emptiness but a wide ease that was there the whole time. Peace is not won, it is what is left when the fighting stops.
Stoicism · Seneca
It is not the person with little who is poor, but the one who wants more. The one who stops wanting is suddenly rich.
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