Numbers 31:18

WEB

¹⁸But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

KJV

¹⁸But all the women^[+] children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

BSB

¹⁸but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

FBV

¹⁸Let all the girls who are virgins live. They are yours.

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 21:10-14

¹⁰When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive, ¹¹and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife, ¹²then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails. ¹³She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

Leviticus 25:44

⁴⁴“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

2 Chronicles 28:8-10

⁸The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria. ⁹But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, 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. ¹⁰Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against the LORD your God?

Deuteronomy 20:14

¹⁴but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

Isaiah 14:2

²The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the LORD’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.