Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin.” New Living Translation “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin.” English Standard Version This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.” Berean Standard Bible This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.” King James Bible And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. New King James Version And this is the thing that you shall do: You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has known a man intimately.” New American Standard Bible And this is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has slept with a male.” NASB 1995 “This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain with a man.” NASB 1977 “And this is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain with a man.” Legacy Standard Bible Now this is the thing that you shall do: you shall devote to destruction every man and every woman who has known, that is lain with, a man.” Amplified Bible And this is the thing that you shall do; you shall utterly destroy every male and every woman who is not a virgin.” Christian Standard Bible This is what you should do: Completely destroy every male, as well as every woman who has gone to bed with a man.” Holman Christian Standard Bible This is what you should do: Completely destroy every male, as well as every female who has slept with a man.” American Standard Version And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. Aramaic Bible in Plain English In this way, do: “Destroy every man and every woman with whom a man has had sexual intercourse”, Brenton Septuagint Translation 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. Douay-Rheims Bible 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. English Revised Version And this is the thing that ye shall do; ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. GOD'S WORD® Translation These are your directions: Claim every female who has gone to bed with a man, and claim every male. Claim them for the LORD by destroying them." Good News Translation Kill all the males, and also every woman who is not a virgin." International Standard Version You're to completely destroy every man and every married woman." JPS Tanakh 1917 And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.' Literal Standard Version And this [is] the thing which you do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, you devote.” Majority Standard Bible This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.” New American Bible This is what you are to do: Every male and every woman who has had relations with a male you shall put under the ban.” NET Bible Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has had sexual relations with a male. But spare the lives of any virgins." So they did as instructed. New Revised Standard Version This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.” New Heart English Bible This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has slept with a man, but the virgins you are to keep alive." And they did so. Webster's Bible Translation And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. World English Bible This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.” Young's Literal Translation And this is the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wives for the Benjamites…10So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children. 11This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.” 12So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.… Cross References Numbers 31:7 Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male. Numbers 31:17 So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man, Judges 21:12 So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. Treasury of Scripture And this is the thing that you shall do, You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that has lain by man. every male Numbers 31:17,18 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him… Deuteronomy 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: Jump to Previous Curse Destroy Devote Kill Lain Male Relations Safe Sex Utterly Virgin VirginsJump to Next Curse Destroy Devote Kill Lain Male Relations Safe Sex Utterly Virgin VirginsJudges 21 1. The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin8. By the destruction of Jabesh Gilead they provide them four hundred wives. 16. They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh (11) Ye shall utterly destroy.--The verb is tacharim---i.e., Ye shall place under the ban (cherem), ye shall devote to destruction. The words of the cherem are almost identical with those of the indignant command of Moses after the war with Midian alluded to in the last verse (Numbers 31:17-18), and there the same exception is made. (Comp. Leviticus 27:21-28; Numbers 21:2-3.) The words are easy to read; it is needless to dwell on the horror of the massacre which they describe. We are dealing throughout with the fierce passions of men living in times of gross spiritual darkness; for we cannot doubt that the oath against Jabesh-Gilead was carried out, though the writer drops a veil over all but the result. The vow of destruction (cherem, anathema, Leviticus 27:28-29) was quite different from the vow of devotion (neder) and the vow of abstinence (corban). (11) To dance in dances.--Possibly the dances of the vintage festival. There is a fountain in a narrow dale, at a little distance from Shiloh, which was very probably the scene of this event. It is a needless conjecture that the feast was the Passover, and the dances a commemoration of the defeat of the Egyptians, like those of Miriam. There seems to have been no regular town at Shiloh; at least, no extensive ruins are traceable. It was probably a community like the Beth-Micah (see Note on Judges 18:2), which was mainly connected with the service of the Tabernacle. The "daughters of Shiloh" would naturally include many women who were in one way or other employed in various functions about the Tabernacle, and not only those who came there to worship (1Samuel 2:22, where "assembled" should be rendered served, as in Numbers 4:23; "the handmaid" of the priests is mentioned in 2Samuel 17:17). But the traces of female attendants in the sanctuary are more numerous in Jewish traditions than in Scripture. . . . Hebrew Thisוְזֶ֥ה (wə·zeh) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that is what אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 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 6213: To do, make Completely destroy תַּחֲרִֽימוּ׃ (ta·ḥă·rî·mū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 2763: To seclude, to devote to religious uses, to be blunt as to the nose every כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every male, זָכָ֗ר (zā·ḵār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2145: Remembered, a male as well as every וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every female אִשָּׁ֛ה (’iš·šāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female who has had relations with יֹדַ֥עַת (yō·ḏa·‘aṯ) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 3045: To know a man.” זָכָ֖ר (zā·ḵār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2145: Remembered, a male Links Judges 21:11 NIVJudges 21:11 NLT Judges 21:11 ESV Judges 21:11 NASB Judges 21:11 KJV Judges 21:11 BibleApps.com Judges 21:11 Biblia Paralela Judges 21:11 Chinese Bible Judges 21:11 French Bible Judges 21:11 Catholic Bible OT History: Judges 21:11 This is the thing that you shall (Jd Judg. 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