Numbers 31:18

And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save you⌃ them alive.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 kill every male in all the spoil, kill every woman, who has known the lying with man.

19And you⌃ shall encamp outside the great camp seven days; every one who has slain and who touches a + 31:19 i. e. of a slain man dead body, + 31:19 Or, shall purify himself. shall be purified on the third day, and you⌃ and your captivity shall purify yourselves on the seventh day.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:14except the women and the stuff: and all the cattle, and whatever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom the Lord your God gives you.

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 →

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