Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Quoting%20commentary for Sotah 70:4

אמר ליה רב חסדא אם כן מילאת את כל ארץ ישראל במות אלא אמר רב חסדא על כל שש ושש פסיעות שור ומריא על כל ששה סדרים של שש פסיעות שבעה פרים ושבעה אילים

R. Abbahu and R. Eleazar [differ in their interpretation]; one said that there were only seventy men [smitten] each of whom was the equal of fifty thousand men, while the other said that there were fifty thousand men [smitten] each of whom was equal to the seventy who constituted the Sanhedrin.

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