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Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.

You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

"‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

Why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?"

‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.'

As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.

Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.

The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.

Then they came up to him and said, "We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.

But we will arm ourselves for battle and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised."

Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.

And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad—they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it.

At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.

We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children.

However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,

Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.