Numbers 31:18
But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.
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- Deut 21:10-14 : 10 Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners, 11 if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife, 12 you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails, 13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
- 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it back to Samaria. 9 Oded, a prophet of the LORD, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them:“Look, because the LORD God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice. 10 And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
- Isa 14:2 : 2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Israel will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the LORD’s land. They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.
- Lev 25:44 : 44 “‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.
- Deut 20:14 : 14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.
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17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.
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15Moses said to them,“Have you allowed all the women to live?
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10So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors against Jabesh Gilead. They commanded them,“Go and kill with your swords the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.
11Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.
12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins who had never been intimate with a man in bed. They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
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19Purification After Battle“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
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35and 32,000 young womenwho had not experienced a man’s bed.
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9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.
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13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
14However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.
15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.
16Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.
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6Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women– wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
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21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
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2They took captive the women and all who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.
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34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.
35We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.
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10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,
11if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,
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3So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
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16“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”
17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”
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19But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.
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22When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”
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25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.
26You must not do anything to the young woman– she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,
27for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
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16The leaders of the assembly said,“How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.
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11your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water–
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7How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
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6We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon– every occupied city, including women and children.
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2“Exact vengeance for the Israelites from the Midianites– after that you will be gathered to your people.”
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56Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
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14all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”
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7They fought against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
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29They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.
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18and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.
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23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,
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13that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”
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7Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”
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9When David would attack a district, he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.