Numbers 31:18

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You can let all the young girls live—but only if they never had sexual relations with any man.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:2

Those nations will bring the Israelites back to their land. The men and women from the other nations will become slaves to Israel. In the past, those people forced the Israelites to become their slaves. But in the future the Israelites will defeat those nations, and Israel will then rule over them in the Lord’s land.

Deuteronomy 20:14

But you may take for yourselves the women, the children, the cattle, and everything else in the city. You may use all these things. The Lord your God has given these things to you.

Leviticus 25:44

“About your men and women slaves: You may get men and women slaves from the other nations around you.

Numbers 31:17

Now, kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations with a man.

Numbers 31:19

And then, all you men who killed other people must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must stay outside the camp even if you just touched a dead body. On the third day you and your prisoners must make yourselves pure. You must do the same thing again on the seventh day.