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


In Context

15 "Have you allowed all the women to live?" he asked them.

16 "They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the Lord in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the Lord 's people.

17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,

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

19 "All of you who have killed anyone or touched anyone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives.

20 Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood."

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:18but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, 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.