Numbers 31:18

World English Bible (2000)

But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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  • Deut 21:10-14 : 10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive, 11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife; 12 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
  • 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, "Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven. 10 Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids for yourselves. Aren't there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?
  • Isa 14:2 : 2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
  • Lev 25:44 : 44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
  • Deut 20:14 : 14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:17
    88%

    17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

  • Num 31:15
    80%

    15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    10 The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

    11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man."

    12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 31:19
    78%

    19 "Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

  • Num 31:35
    77%

    35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

  • Num 31:9
    75%

    9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

  • Deut 20:13-16
    4 verses
    75%

    13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

    14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

    15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

  • Ezek 9:6
    74%

    6 kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

  • Jer 18:21
    73%

    21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    73%

    2 and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, both small and great. They didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34 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:

    35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

    11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    73%

    3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

    17 But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

    18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"

  • Deut 3:19
    72%

    19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

  • Judg 21:22
    72%

    22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'"

  • Deut 22:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

    26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

    27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16 Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"

  • Deut 29:11
    71%

    11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

  • Judg 21:7
    71%

    7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

    6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

  • Lev 19:20
    70%

    20 "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Num 31:2
    70%

    2 "Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

  • Deut 28:55-56
    2 verses
    70%

    55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

    56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Zech 12:14
    70%

    14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

  • Jer 44:7
    69%

    7 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;

  • Num 31:7
    69%

    7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

  • Gen 34:29
    69%

    29 and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    69%

    18 and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.

  • Deut 22:23
    69%

    23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

  • Josh 6:21
    69%

    21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

  • Num 31:27
    69%

    27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    69%

    11 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell of us, saying, 'So did David, and so has been his way all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'"

  • Josh 2:13
    69%

    13 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."

  • Exod 1:22
    69%

    22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

  • Josh 1:14
    69%

    14 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7 What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    69%

    9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.