So here is Cerbie’s latest embarrassment regarding Numbers 31:18.  He tried to appeal to some Bible translations which don’t use the word “children” for the Hebrew word “taph”, only to realize too late that this appeal actually backfires:

“But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.“- esv

But save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.- niv

But all the young women who have not had sexual intercourse with a man will be yours.-net

But the NET Bible says in the commentary the following:

• “tn Or “girls.” The Hebrew indicates they would be female children, making the selection easy.”

  http://classic.net.bible.org/verse.php?book=Num&chapter=31&verse=18#