And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?
MESSAGE
"What's this! You've let these women live!
NKJV
And Moses said to them: "Have you kept all the women alive?
PHILIPS
RWEBSTR
And Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
GWV
"Why did you let all the women live?" he asked them.
NET
Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live?*
NET
31:15 Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live?1355
tn The verb is the Piel perfect of the word חָיָה (khayah, “to live”). In the Piel stem it must here mean “preserve alive,” or “allow to live,” rather than make alive.
Numbers 31:15
