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Green's Literal Translation

Numbers 31:15

And Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Captive;   Sanitation;   War;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Delilah;   Gideon;   Midian;   Moab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Midian, Mtdianites;   Woman;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eleazar ;   Midian, Midianites ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balaam;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jephthah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Slave;   Zimri (1);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Baal;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafṭarah;   Midian and Midianites;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
King James Version
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
Lexham English Bible
And Moses said to them, "You have kept alive every female?
English Standard Version
Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?
New Century Version
He asked them, "Why did you let the women live?
New English Translation
Moses said to them, "Have you allowed all the women to live?
Amplified Bible
And Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?
New American Standard Bible
And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women?
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?
Contemporary English Version
and said, "I can't believe you let the women live!
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?
Darby Translation
and Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses said to them, "Why did you let the women live?
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses said to them, Why have you let all the women live?
Good News Translation
He asked them, "Why have you kept all the women alive?
Christian Standard Bible®
“Have you let every female live?” he asked them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde vnto the: Haue ye saued all ye wemen alyue?
American Standard Version
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
Bible in Basic English
And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses sayde vnto them: Haue ye saued all the women alyue?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?
King James Version (1611)
And Moses said vnto them, Haue ye saued all the women aliue?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive?
English Revised Version
And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
Berean Standard Bible
"Have you spared all the women?" he asked them.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?
Update Bible Version
And Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
World English Bible
Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
New King James Version
And Moses said to them: "Have you kept all the women alive?
New Living Translation
"Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded.
New Life Bible
He said to them, "Have you allowed all the women to live?
New Revised Standard
Moses said to them, "Have you allowed all the women to live?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses said unto them, - Have ye saved alive every female?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Said: Why have you saved the women?
Revised Standard Version
Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?

Contextual Overview

13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the rulers of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp. 14 And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds who came from the service of the war. 15 And Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these through the counsel of Balaam became to the sons of Israel a deliverance of treachery against Jehovah in the matter of Peor; and the plague was on the company of Jehovah. 17 And now kill every male among the infants; yea, you shall kill every woman having known a man by lying with a male. 18 And you shall keep alive for yourselves all the female children who have not known a man by lying with a male. 19 And encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever touched a pierced one, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. 20 And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify them . 21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah has commanded Moses: 22 only the gold, the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 2:34, Deuteronomy 20:13, Deuteronomy 20:16-18, Joshua 6:21, Joshua 8:25, Joshua 10:40, Joshua 11:14, 1 Samuel 15:3, Psalms 137:8, Psalms 137:9, Jeremiah 48:10, Ezekiel 9:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 25:1 - the people Numbers 25:18 - vex you Numbers 31:9 - General 2 Chronicles 20:25 - precious jewels Proverbs 28:10 - causeth

Cross-References

Genesis 30:26
Give my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go. For you know my service with which I have served you.
Genesis 31:7
And your father has cheated me and has changed my wages ten times. And God has not let him do evil to me.
Genesis 31:11
And the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Behold me.
Genesis 31:15
Are we not counted strangers by him. For he has sold us, and selling he has sold us for silver.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob deceived the heart of Laban the Syrian, for he did not tell him that he was about to flee.
Genesis 31:27
Why did you hide so as to flee, and have deceived me and have not told me. And I would have sent you away with rejoicing and with music, with tabret and with harp.
Genesis 31:30
And now surely you have gone because you have longed after your father's house. Why have you stolen my gods?
Genesis 31:41
Now I have been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock. And you have changed my wages ten times.
Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find a word.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses said unto them, have ye saved all the women alive?] Which either had been reported to him, or he concluded, by seeing so many with them; and this question is put, not for information, but by way of reproof, and as chiding them for what they had done; for they might have received orders from him to put them to death, when he sent them out; and if so, there was the more reason to be angry with them; or he might conclude they would have done this of themselves, knowing what instruments of mischief these women had been to Israel.


 
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