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Numbers 31:18
But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
Numbers 31:18 · Bible in Basic English
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Numbers 31:18 in other translations
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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In context
15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?
16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.
17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.
18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.
20 And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.
21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:
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