“But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.”
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves — virgins are spared, presumably for marriage (as a standard of ancient warfare and population replacement). The preservation of virgin women is framed not as mercy but as utilitarian: they can integrate into Israel without the corruption of prior idolatrous entanglement.
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