Numbers 31:17
Good News Translation
So now kill every boy and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse,

New Revised Standard Version
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.

Contemporary English Version
You must put to death every boy and all the women who have ever had sex.

New American Bible
Now kill, therefore, every male among the children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

kill every male.

Judges 21:11,12 And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save. . . .

him.

Context
Vengeance on Midian
16Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished? 17Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.18But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:…
Cross References
Numbers 31:18
But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:

Deuteronomy 7:2
And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

Deuteronomy 20:16
But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

Judges 21:10
So they sent ten thousand of the most valiant men, and commanded them, saying: Go and put the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad to the sword, with their wives and their children.

Judges 21:11
And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.

Numbers 31:16
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