Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations.
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.
International Standard Version
You are to allow the young women who haven't yet had sexual relations with a man to live for yourselves."
A Conservative Version
But all the women-children, who have not known man by laying 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.
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 So now, kill all the male children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man, 18 but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations. 19 “You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
“When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God hands them over to you and you take some of them prisoner, and
Leviticus 25:44
Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.
Deuteronomy 20:14
But you may take the women, children, animals, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the Lord your God has given you.
2 Chronicles 28:8-10
Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their brothers—women, sons, and daughters.
Isaiah 14:2
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land.