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Vengeance on Midian

Numbers 31:15

In 11 translations

BSB
“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.
KJV
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
WEB
Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
ASV
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
LSV
And Moses says to them, “Have you kept every female alive?
YLT
And Moses saith unto them, 'Have ye kept alive every female?
DBY
and Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
DRC
Said: Why have you saved the women?
GNV
And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women?
JPS
And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?
LXXE
And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive?

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֹשֶׁ֑ה הַֽחִיִּיתֶ֖ם כָּל־נְקֵבָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Μωυσῆς, ἱνατί ἐζωγρήσατε πᾶν θῆλυ;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Samuel 15:3Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
  • Jeremiah 48:10Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.
  • Deuteronomy 2:34At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.
  • Ezekiel 9:6Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
  • Deuteronomy 20:13When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
  • Psalms 137:8–9O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us. Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
  • Deuteronomy 20:16–18However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes. For you must devote them to complete destruction —the Hittites, Amorites,…
  • Joshua 10:40So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD,…
  • Joshua 11:14The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.
  • Joshua 6:21At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.
  • Joshua 8:25A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

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