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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
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