Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
But all the women-children, who have not known man by laying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
New American Standard Bible
But all the
King James Version
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Holman 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."
American Standard Version
But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Amplified
But all the young girls who have not known a man intimately, keep alive for yourselves [to marry].
Bible in Basic English
But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
Darby Translation
but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
Julia Smith Translation
And all the little ones among the women who knew not the bed of a male, preserve ye alive for yourselves.
King James 2000
But all the young girls, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But all the females who have not {had sexual intercourse with a man}, keep alive for yourselves.
Modern King James verseion
But all the female children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But all the women-children that have not lain with men, keep alive 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.
The Emphasized Bible
But all the young of womankind that hay, not cohabited with man, preserve alive for yourselves.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
Interlinear
Yada`
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 31:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Army Returns
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women-children, who have not known man by laying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 19 And encamp ye outside the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
When thou go forth to battle against thine enemies, and LORD thy God delivers them into thy hands, and thou carry them away captive,
Leviticus 25:44
And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shall have, from the nations that are round about you, ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids from them.
Deuteronomy 20:14
but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, thou shall take for a prey to thyself. And thou shall eat the spoil of thine enemies, which LORD thy God has given thee.
2 Chronicles 28:8-10
And the sons of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and also took 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 LORD for servants and for handmaids. And they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shal