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Where did Bnei Yisroel get slaves in the desert?
In several locations (example: Yoma 75a.14 ), Chazal mention that Bnei Yisroel had slaves even while they were in the midbar. Where did they get them from? Did they take them from Egypt? Did they take slaves from the nations that they fought with even before they entered the land of Canaan?
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From the battle with Midian alone, Bamidbar 31:35, there were 32,000 captured as slaves. That was only some of the women - they actually captured many more and Moshe commanded them to kill the men and the women who had been involved in sin with the Jews, as described in Bamidbar 25:1.
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