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Numbers 31:17-19
International Standard Version
Numbers 31:17-19
International Standard Version
17 You are to kill every male child[a] and every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.[b] 18 You are to allow the young women who haven’t yet had sexual relations with a man[c] to live for yourselves.”
Purification after the Battle
19 “Now you are to stay outside the camp for seven days, after which any of you who has killed a person[d] or touched someone who was killed may purify yourselves on the third day. You and your captives will be pure on the seventh day.
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- Numbers 31:17 Lit. every male among the little ones
- Numbers 31:17 Lit. every woman who has known a man by lying with him
- Numbers 31:18 Lit. little ones among the women, who had not known a man by lying with him
- Numbers 31:19 Lit. soul
Numbers 31:17-19
New International Version
Numbers 31:17-19
New International Version
17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,(A) 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
19 “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed(B) must stay outside the camp seven days.(C) On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves(D) and your captives.
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