And if you want even more practice with numbers, the Bible has a whole book of them. From the Book of Numbers 31 verses 32 - 40 (Vulgate)
Complete
the translation with the missing numbers.
[32] fuit autem
praeda quam exercitus ceperat ovium sescenta septuaginta quinque milia |
The valuable
property remaining from the spoils of war that the people of the army had
taken was [i] __________ sheep |
[33] boum septuaginta
duo milia |
[ii] __________
oxen |
[34] asinorum sexaginta
milia et mille |
[iii] __________
donkeys |
[35] animae
hominum sexus feminei quae non cognoverant viros triginta duo milia |
and [iv] __________
women who hadn't known a man intimately by sleeping with him. |
[36] dataque est
media pars his qui in proelio fuerant ovium trecenta triginta septem milia
quingenta |
The
half-share of those who had gone out to battle numbered [v] __________ sheep, |
[37] equibus in
partem Domini supputatae sunt oves sescentae septuaginta quinque |
of which the
LORD's tribute was [vi] __________. |
[38] et de bubus triginta
sex milibus boves septuaginta duo |
The oxen were
[vii] __________, of which the LORD's tribute was [viii] __________. |
[39] de asinis triginta
milibus quingentis asini sexaginta unus |
The donkeys
were [ix] __________, of which the LORD's tribute was [x] __________. |
[40] de animabus
hominum sedecim milibus cesserunt in partem Domini triginta duae
animae |
Humans were [xi]
__________, of which the LORD's tribute was [xii] __________ persons. |
32; 61; 72; 675; 16,000; 30,500; 32,000; 36,000; 61,000; 72,000; 337,500; 675,000
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