Numbers 31:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 21:10-14 : 10 `When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity, 11 and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife, 12 then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails, 13 and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife: 14 `And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.
  • 2 Chr 28:8-9 : 8 And the sons of Israel take captive of their brethren, two hundred thousand, wives, sons and daughters, and also much spoil they have seized from them, and they bring in the spoil to Samaria. 9 And there hath been there a prophet of Jehovah (Oded `is' his name), and he goeth out before the host that hath come in to Samaria, and saith to them, `Lo, in the fury of Jehovah God of your fathers against Judah, He hath given them into your hand, and ye slay among them in rage -- unto the heavens it hath come; 10 and now, sons of Judah and Jerusalem ye are saying to subdue for men-servants and for maid-servants to you; but are there not with you causes of guilt before Jehovah your God?
  • Isa 14:2 : 2 And peoples have taken them, And have brought them in unto their place, And the house of Israel have inherited them, On the land of Jehovah, For men-servants and for maid-servants, And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled over their exactors.
  • Lev 25:44 : 44 `And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast `are' of the nations who `are' round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,
  • Deut 20:14 : 14 Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:17
    88%

    17`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

  • Num 31:15
    80%

    15And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    80%

    10And the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, `Go -- and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

    11And this `is' the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'

    12And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which `is' in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 31:19
    78%

    19`And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days -- any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day -- ye and your captives;

  • Num 31:35
    77%

    35and of human beings -- of the women who have not known the lying of a male -- all the persons `are' two and thirty thousand.

  • Num 31:9
    75%

    9And the sons of Israel take captive the women of Midian, and their infants; and all their cattle, and all their substance, and all their wealth they have plundered;

  • Deut 20:13-16
    4 verses
    75%

    13and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.

    14Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee.

    15So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16`Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee `for' an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;

  • Ezek 9:6
    74%

    6aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom `is' the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

  • Jer 18:21
    73%

    21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    73%

    2and they take captive the women who `are' in it; from small unto great they have not put any one to death, and they lead away, and go on their way.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants -- we have not left a remnant;

    35only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.

  • Deut 21:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,

    11and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    73%

    3Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16and saith, `When ye cause the Hebrew women to bear, and have looked on the children; if it `is' a son -- then ye have put him to death; and if it `is' a daughter -- then she hath lived.'

    17And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them, and keep the lads alive;

    18and the king of Egypt calleth for the midwives, and saith to them, `Wherefore have ye done this thing, and keep the lads alive?'

  • Deut 3:19
    72%

    19Only, your wives, and your infants, and your cattle -- I have known that ye have much cattle -- do dwell in your cities which I have given to you,

  • Judg 21:22
    72%

    22and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us `by' them, for we have not taken `to' each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time `that' ye are guilty.'

  • Deut 22:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25`And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone;

    26and to the damsel thou dost not do anything, the damsel hath no deadly sin; for as a man riseth against his neighbour and hath murdered him -- the life, so `is' this thing;

    27for in a field he found her, she hath cried -- the damsel who is betrothed -- and she hath no saviour.

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives -- for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'

  • Deut 29:11
    71%

    11your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who `is' in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water --

  • Judg 21:7
    71%

    7what do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

    6and we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants;

  • Lev 19:20
    70%

    20`And when a man lieth with a woman with seed of copulation, and she a maid-servant, betrothed to a man, and not really ransomed, or freedom hath not been given to her, an investigation there is; they are not put to death, for she `is' not free.

  • Num 31:2
    70%

    2`Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites -- afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'

  • Deut 28:55-56
    2 verses
    70%

    55against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates.

    56`The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

  • Zech 12:14
    70%

    14All the families that are left, Every family apart, and their women apart!

  • Jer 44:7
    69%

    7`And, now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Why are ye doing great evil unto your own souls, to cut off to you man and woman, infant and suckling, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave to you a remnant:

  • Num 31:7
    69%

    7And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;

  • Gen 34:29
    69%

    29and all their wealth, and all their infants, and their wives they have taken captive, and they spoil also all that `is' in the house.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    69%

    18and to the genealogy among all their infants, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters to all the congregation, for in their faithfulness they sanctify themselves in holiness.

  • Deut 22:23
    69%

    23`When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;

  • Josh 6:21
    69%

    21and they devote all that `is' in the city, from man even unto woman, from young even unto aged, even unto ox, and sheep, and ass, by the mouth of the sword.

  • Num 31:27
    69%

    27and thou hast halved the prey between those handling the battle who go out to the host and all the company;

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    69%

    11Neither man nor woman doth David keep alive, to bring in `word' to Gath, saying, `Lest they declare `it' against us, saying, Thus hath David done, and thus `is' his custom all the days that he hath dwelt in the fields of the Philistines.'

  • Josh 2:13
    69%

    13and have kept alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and have delivered our souls from death.'

  • Exod 1:22
    69%

    22and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, `Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'

  • Josh 1:14
    69%

    14your wives, your infants, and your substance, abide in the land which Moses hath given to you beyond the Jordan, and ye -- ye pass over by fifties, before your brethren, all the mighty ones of valour, and have helped them,

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7`And who `is' the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    69%

    9and David hath smitten the land, and doth not keep alive man and woman, and hath taken sheep, and oxen, and asses, and camels, and garments, and turneth back, and cometh in unto Achish.