OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 31:15

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

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Verse 15. Women. They had received no positive orders respecting them, and it was customary to spare their lives. But these dissolute women had rendered themselves unworthy of such indulgence, ( Calmet.) and the sight of them raised the just indignation of Moses, who was afraid lest their manners should corrupt the victors. Bible.

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