Numbers 31:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Ps 137:8-9 : 8 O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.
Jer 48:10 : 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
Ezek 9:6 : 6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
Deut 2:34 : 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
Deut 20:13 : 13 and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Deut 20:16-18 : 16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth; 17 but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; 18 that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God.
Josh 6:21 : 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Josh 8:25 : 25 And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
Josh 10:40 : 40 So Joshua smote all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Jehovah, the God of Israel, commanded.
Josh 11:14 : 14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Num 31:16-18
3 verses
80%
16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.
17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Num 31:14
79%
14And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
Num 25:15-17
3 verses
78%
15And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.
16And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
17Vex the Midianites, and smite them;
Num 31:1-3
3 verses
77%
1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
2Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
3And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah's vengeance on Midian.
Num 31:7
76%
7And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
Num 25:5-6
2 verses
75%
5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.
6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
Num 31:25-26
2 verses
75%
25And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
26Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;
Num 31:9
75%
9And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
Exod 1:16-18
3 verses
75%
16and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.
18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?
Num 25:10
73%
10And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exod 4:19
73%
19And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.
Num 27:15
73%
15And Moses spake unto Jehovah, saying,
Num 31:11
73%
11And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.
Num 5:11
72%
11And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 14:3
72%
3And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Judg 21:11
72%
11And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Num 31:31-32
2 verses
72%
31And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah commanded Moses.
32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Num 15:17
71%
17And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 32:20
71%
20And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will arm yourselves to go before Jehovah to the war,
Num 31:49
71%
49and they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
Num 15:1
71%
1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 31:42
71%
42And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred
Num 31:47
71%
47even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Judg 21:16
71%
16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
Lev 24:13
70%
13And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Exod 5:21
70%
21and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Deut 31:25
70%
25that Moses commanded the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, saying,
Exod 1:22
70%
22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Num 5:5
70%
5And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 3:44
70%
44And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 15:37
70%
37And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 26:3
70%
3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
Num 29:40
70%
40And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exod 32:26-27
2 verses
70%
26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoso is on Jehovah's side, [let him come] unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
27And he said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
Num 27:6
70%
6And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Num 31:35
70%
35and thirty and two thousand persons in all, of the women that had not known man by lying with him.
Num 14:15
70%
15Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,