499 B
499 B
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines ... young women without number
These numbers are to be large, then larger, and then beyond counting. AT: "There are 60 queens, 80 concubines ... more young women than anyone could count" or "There are many queens, even more concubines, and more young women than anyone could count" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
young women ... queens ... concubines
the women spoken of in verse 8