Numbers 31:18
And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save ye them alive.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
17Now then slay every male in all the spoil, slay every woman, who has known the lying with man.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:14except the women and the stuff: and all the cattle, and whatsoever shall be in the city, and all the plunder thou shalt take as spoil for thyself, and shalt eat all the plunder of thine enemies whom the Lord thy God gives thee.
2 Chronicles 28:8And the children of Israel took captive of their brethren three hundred thousand, women, and sons, and daughters, and they spoiled them of much property, and brought the spoils 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 →