Bible verse
but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
Numbers 31:18 · BSB
The verses around it, from Numbers 31.
14 But Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who were returning from the battle.
15 “Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.
16 “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
17 So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,
18 but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
19 All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.
20 And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”
21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:
22 Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
KJV
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
ASV
But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
ERV
But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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