Numbers 31:18
What does Numbers 31:18 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 31:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
Context
v.17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
v.18This passage
v.19And encamp ye without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 25:44
And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
- 2 Chronicles 28:8
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
- Isaiah 14:2
And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
- Deuteronomy 21:10
When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,
- Deuteronomy 20:14
but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
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