Numbers 31:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.”
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“but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 31:18 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 25:44Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
- Deuteronomy 20:14But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 21:10When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
- 2 Chronicles 28:8Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.
- Isaiah 14:2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
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