Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man. New Living Translation Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. English Standard Version But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves. Berean Study Bible but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man. New American Standard Bible "But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. King James Bible But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Christian Standard Bible but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not gone to bed with a man. Contemporary English Version But do not kill the young women who have never had sex. You may keep them for yourselves." Good News Translation but keep alive for yourselves all the girls and all the women who are virgins. Holman Christian Standard Bible but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations." International Standard Version You are to allow the young women who haven't yet had sexual relations with a man to live for yourselves." NET Bible But all the young women who have not had sexual intercourse with a man will be yours. New Heart English Bible But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. GOD'S WORD® Translation But save for yourselves every girl who has never gone to bed with a man. JPS Tanakh 1917 But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. New American Standard 1977 “But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. Jubilee Bible 2000 But all the female children that have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves. King James 2000 Bible But all the young girls, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. American King James Version But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. American Standard Version But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Douay-Rheims Bible But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves: Darby Bible Translation but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves. English Revised Version But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Webster's Bible Translation But all the female children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. World English Bible But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Young's Literal Translation and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves. Study Bible Vengeance on Midian…17So now, kill all the boys, and kill every woman who has had relations with a man, 18but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man. 19All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.… Cross References Numbers 31:17 So now, kill all the boys, and kill every woman who has had relations with a man, Numbers 31:19 All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives. Treasury of Scripture But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. keep alive for yourselves. It has been groundlessly asserted, that Moses here authorised the Israelites to make concubines of the whole number of female children; and an insidious objection against his writings has been grounded upon this monstrous supposition. But the whole tenor of the law, and especially a stature recorded in De. Numbers 21:10-14 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth… Leviticus 25:44 Both your slaves, and your bondmaids, which you shall have, shall … Deuteronomy 20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that … Deuteronomy 21:10-14 When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your … 2 Chronicles 28:8-10 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers … Isaiah 14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place… (18) Keep alive for yourselves.--The Israelites were allowed to make slaves of their captives. Shortly after the capture of these Midianitish women, and, it may be, as arising out of it, the law concerning marriage with captives was enacted. (See Deuteronomy 21:10-14.)Verse 18. - Keep alive for yourselves, i.e., for domestic slaves in the first instance. Subsequently no doubt many of them became inferior wives of their masters, or were married to their sons. Infants were probably put to death with their mothers. 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. 31:13-18 The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty. This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the worst criminals. The female children were spared, who, being brought up among the Israelites, would not tempt them to idolatry. The whole history shows the hatefulness of sin, and the guilt of tempting others; it teaches us to avoid all occasions of evil, and to give no quarter to inward lusts. The women and children were not kept for sinful purposes, but for slaves, a custom every where practised in former times, as to captives. In the course of providence, when famine and plagues visit a nation for sin, children suffer in the common calamity. In this case parents are punished in their children; and for children dying before actual sin, full provision is made as to their eternal happiness, by the mercy of God in Christ. 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