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Vengeance on Midian

Numbers 31:18

In 11 translations

BSB
but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
KJV
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
WEB
But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
ASV
But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
LSV
and all the infants among the women who have not known the lying of a male you have kept alive for yourselves.
YLT
and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
DBY
but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
DRC
But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:
GNV
But all the women children that haue not knowen carnall copulation, keepe aliue for your selues.
JPS
But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
LXXE
And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save ye them alive.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְכֹל֙ הַטַּ֣ף בַּנָּשִׁ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יָדְע֖וּ מִשְׁכַּ֣ב זָכָ֑ר הַחֲי֖וּ לָכֶֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν ἀπαρτίαν τῶν γυναικῶν, ἥτις οὐκ οἶδε κοίτην ἄρσενος, ζωγρήσατε αὐτάς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 21:10–14When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive, if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife, then…
  • 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.
  • 2 Chronicles 28:8–10Then 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. But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he…
  • Leviticus 25:44Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
  • 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…

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