Numbers 31:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Not known a man, to wit, carnally: See Poole "Ge 4:1 19:8 Leviticus 18:22. Keep alive for yourselves; either to sell them as slaves to others, or to use them as servants to yourselves, or to marry them, when you have prepared and instructed them.

Numbers 31:18

18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.