Verse 18

But you may keep alive for yourselves all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 21:10-14 : 10 When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take captives, 11 if you see among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. 13 She shall remove the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, mourning her father and mother for a full month. After that, you may go to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14 But if you are not pleased with her, you must let her go wherever she wishes. You are not to sell her for money or treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.
  • 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 The Israelites took captive 200,000 people from their relatives—women, sons, and daughters. They also took a great amount of plunder and brought it to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them, "Because the LORD, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hands. But you have slain them in a rage that has reached up to heaven. 10 And now you intend to enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the LORD your God?
  • Isa 14:2 : 2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. Then the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female servants. They will take captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
  • Lev 25:44 : 44 Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
  • Deut 20:14 : 14 However, you may take the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the city as your spoils. You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.