Numbers - 31:15

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

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 31:15.

Differing Translations

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Said: Why have you saved the women?
And Moses saith unto them, 'Have ye kept alive every female?
And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?
said: "Why have you spared the females?
Et dixit els Moses, Reservastisne omnes mulieres?

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the (e) women alive?
(e) As though he said, you should have spared none.

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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