Numbers 31:15

15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.

Numbers 31:15 in Other Translations

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

15 Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?

15 “Why have you let all the women live?” he demanded.

15 "What's this! You've let these women live!

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

15 "Why did you let all the women live?" he asked them.

15 "Have you let every female live?" he asked them.

15 "Have you let all of the women remain alive?" Moses asked them.

Numbers 31:15 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:15

And Moses said unto them, have ye saved all the women alive?
] Which either had been reported to him, or he concluded, by seeing so many with them; and this question is put, not for information, but by way of reproof, and as chiding them for what they had done; for they might have received orders from him to put them to death, when he sent them out; and if so, there was the more reason to be angry with them; or he might conclude they would have done this of themselves, knowing what instruments of mischief these women had been to Israel.

Numbers 31:15 In-Context

13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.

15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.

16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the LORD in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the LORD’s people.

17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,