Numbers - 31:18

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18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 31:18.

Differing Translations

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But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:
but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
But all the female children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
But the young girls, and all female virgins, reserve for yourselves.
Omnes autem parvulas inter mulieres, qum non cognoverint concubitum masculi, servate vivas vobis.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

But all the women children,.... The females among the little ones:
that have not known a man by lying with him; which might be pretty clear, and easily concluded, from their age:
keep for yourselves; either to be handmaids to them, or to be married among them when grown up, and become proselytes, and initiated into their religion.

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