Judges 21:11
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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.

every male

Numbers 31:17,18 Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men. . . .

Deuteronomy 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

Context
Wives for the Benjamites
10So 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. 11And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.12And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in Silo, into the land of Chanaan.…
Cross References
Numbers 31:7
And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.

Numbers 31:17
Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

Judges 21:12
And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in Silo, into the land of Chanaan.

Lexicon
This
וְזֶ֥ה (wə·zeh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2088: This, that

is what
אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you are to do:
תַּעֲשׂ֑וּ (ta·‘ă·śū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

Completely destroy
תַּחֲרִֽימוּ׃ (ta·ḥă·rî·mū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2763: To seclude, to devote to religious uses, to be blunt as to the nose

every
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

male,
זָכָ֗ר (zā·ḵār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2145: Remembered, a male

as well as every
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

female
אִשָּׁ֛ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

who has had relations with
יֹדַ֥עַת (yō·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

a man.”
זָכָ֖ר (zā·ḵār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2145: Remembered, a male


Additional Translations
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”And this is the thing that you shall do, You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that has lain by man.

And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote to destruction, but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.

And this is the thing which ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain with man.

And this is the thing that ye shall do; ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man."

And this is the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'
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