Numbers 31:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 21:10-14 : 10 When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners; 11 If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife; 12 Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut; 13 And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife. 14 But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.
  • 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 And the children of Israel took away as prisoners from their brothers, two hundred thousand, women and sons and daughters, and a great store of their goods, and took them to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven. 10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?
  • Isa 14:2 : 2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.
  • Lev 25:44 : 44 But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.
  • Deut 20:14 : 14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:17
    88%

    17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

  • Num 31:15
    80%

    15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    10 So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

    11 And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.

    12 Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 31:19
    78%

    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.

  • Num 31:35
    77%

    35 And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.

  • Num 31:9
    75%

    9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

  • Deut 20:13-16
    4 verses
    75%

    13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

    14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

    15 So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

    16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

  • Ezek 9:6
    74%

    6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

  • Jer 18:21
    73%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    73%

    2 And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34 At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:

    35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

    11 If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    73%

    3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16 When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.

    17 But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.

    18 And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?

  • Deut 3:19
    72%

    19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

  • Judg 21:22
    72%

    22 And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

  • Deut 22:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25 But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;

    26 Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:

    27 For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16 Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?

  • Deut 29:11
    71%

    11 And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:

  • Judg 21:7
    71%

    7 What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

    6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

  • Lev 19:20
    70%

    20 If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • Num 31:2
    70%

    2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

  • Deut 28:55-56
    2 verses
    70%

    55 And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

    56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

  • Zech 12:14
    70%

    14 And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.

  • Jer 44:7
    69%

    7 So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

  • Num 31:7
    69%

    7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

  • Gen 34:29
    69%

    29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    69%

    18 And in the lists were all their little ones and their wives and their sons and daughters, through all the people: they made themselves holy in the positions which they were given.

  • Deut 22:23
    69%

    23 If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;

  • Josh 6:21
    69%

    21 And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

  • Num 31:27
    69%

    27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    69%

    11 Not one living man or woman did David ever take back with him to Gath, fearing that they might give an account of what had taken place, and say, This is what David did, and so has he been doing all the time while he has been living in the land of the Philistines.

  • Josh 2:13
    69%

    13 And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us?

  • Exod 1:22
    69%

    22 And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

  • Josh 1:14
    69%

    14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle will be kept here in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but you, the fighting-men, are to go over before your brothers, armed, to give them help;

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7 Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    69%

    9 And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.