Numbers 31:18
“But all the women children that haue not knowen a man by lying with him, keepe aliue for your selues.”
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Numbers 31:18 Context
16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsell of Balaam, to commit trespasse against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the Congregation of the Lord. 17Now therefore kill euery male among the little ones, and kill euery woman that hath knowen man, by lying with him. 18But all the women children that haue not knowen a man by lying with him, keepe aliue for your selues. 19And doe yee abide without the campe seuen dayes: whosoeuer hath killed any person, and whosoeuer hath touched any slaine, purifie both your selues, and your captiues, on the third day, and on the seuenth day. 20And purifie all your raiment, and all that is made of skinnes, and all worke of goates haire, and all things made of wood.
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But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
- King James Version
"But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.
- New American Standard Version (1995)