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Numbers 31:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Numbers 31:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 These women here, on Balaam’s advice, made the Israelites act treacherously against the Lord in the affair of Peor, so that the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.(A) 17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.(B) 18 But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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