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NASB | Numbers 31:17 "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Numbers 31:17 "Now therefore, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who is not a virgin. |
Bible Question (short): why the distinction btw girls and boys? |
Question (full): Some verses in the bible are hard to accept because we don't understand them, while others are hard to accept precisely because we do. If I may put your response into my own words.... While justified in terms of past experience at the hands of the Midianites, the executions were pre-emptive self-defense in order to preserve the line that would later produce the Messiah. Do you concur? Also, you quote Walvoord as saying "The virgins were spared because they obviously had had no role in the Baal of Peor incident nor could they by themselves perpetuate the Midianite peoples." The young boys likely were also not responsible, and they too could not perpetuate the Midianite people BY THEMSELVES. Why is there a distiction between young virgin girls and young boys, who likely are virgins also, regarding their ability to procreate? Finally, its still not clear to me how the young virgin girls were to be "taken". Does the bible give details on this practice? |