Numbers 31:18
Let all the girls who are virgins live. They are yours.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
In Context
17So go and kill all the boys, and every woman who has slept with a man.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:14But you can take as plunder the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the town. You can take and use all your enemies' possessions the Lord your God gives you.
2 Chronicles 28:8The Israelites captured 200,000 of their “brothers” —women, sons, and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:14-25
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the… Read the whole commentary →