Numbers 31:15
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Said: Why have you saved the women?

Deuteronomy 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

Deuteronomy 20:13,16-18 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the sword, . . .

Joshua 6:21 And killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and old. The oxen also, and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 8:25 And the number of them that fell that day, both of men and women, was twelve thousand persons, all of the city of Hai.

Joshua 10:40 So Joshua conquered all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the plain, and of Asedoth, with their kings: he left not any remains therein, but slew all that breathed, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

Joshua 11:14 And the children of Israel divided among themselves all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, killing all the men.

1 Samuel 15:3 Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Psalm 137:8,9 O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. . . .

Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.

Ezekiel 9:6 Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children and women: but upon whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they began at the ancient men who were before the house.

Context
Vengeance on Midian
14And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle, 15Said: Why have you saved the women?16Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?…
Cross References
Numbers 31:14
And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,

Deuteronomy 20:14
Excepting women and children, cattle and other things, that are in the city. And thou shalt divide all the prey to the army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy enemies, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

Lexicon
“Have you spared
הַֽחִיִּיתֶ֖ם (ha·ḥî·yî·ṯem)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2421: To live, to revive

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the women?”
נְקֵבָֽה׃ (nə·qê·ḇāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5347: A female

he
מֹשֶׁ֑ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

asked them.
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say


Additional Translations
“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.And Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive?

and Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

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

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

And Moses saith unto them, 'Have ye kept alive every female?
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