# Take them alive

This means to capture them, but not to kill them. AT: "Seize them" or "Capture them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# So they took them alive

"So they captured them"

# forty-two men

"42 men" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# He did not leave any of them alive

This can be stated in positive form. AT: "He killed all of them"