But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
WEB
but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
YLT
and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
DBT
but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC