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King James Bible - Numbers 31:18

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 31:18

Pero a todas las niñas entre las mujeres, que no hayan conocido ayuntamiento de varón, os guardaréis vivas.

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 18. But all the women children , etc.] The females among the little ones: that have not known a man by lying with him ; which might be pretty clear, and easily concluded, from their age: keep for yourselves ; either to be handmaids to them, or to be married among them when grown up, and become proselytes, and initiated into their religion.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 13-18 - The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilt nation, in which the women were the worst criminals. The femal children were spared, who, being brought up among the Israelites, woul not tempt them to idolatry. The whole history shows the hatefulness of sin, and the guilt of tempting others; it teaches us to avoid all occasions of evil, and to give no quarter to inward lusts. The wome and children were not kept for sinful purposes, but for slaves, custom every where practised in former times, as to captives. In the course of providence, when famine and plagues visit a nation for sin children suffer in the common calamity. In this case parents ar punished in their children; and for children dying before actual sin full provision is made as to their eternal happiness, by the mercy of God in Christ.

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Original Hebrew

וכל 3605 הטף 2945 בנשׁים 802 אשׁר 834 לא 3808 ידעו 3045 משׁכב 4904 זכר 2145 החיו׃ 2421