18but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.


In Context

15 and Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

16 Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of Jehovah.

17 And now slay every male among the little ones, and slay every woman that hath known man by lying with him,

18 but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.

19 And encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever hath killed a person, and whoever hath touched any slain; ye shall purify yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

20 And every garment, and every vessel of skin, and all work of goat's hair, and every utensil of wood shall ye purify.

Numbers 31:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

31:18but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

31:18But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:18But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:18But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:18But all the female children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

31:18and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.