Numbers 31:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who is not a virgin.

American Standard Version (1901)

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

Common English Bible

Now kill every male child and every female who has known a man intimately by sleeping with him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, put to death all of them: whatever is of the male sex, even among the little ones, and cut the throats of those women who have known men by sexual relations.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Numbers 31:17 Cross References

Numbers 31:18

But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 20:13

and when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:

Judges 21:10

And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Ja´besh–gil´e-ad with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.