Numbers 31:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has 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 young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 20:13

and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand you shall put all its males to the sword,

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.

Judges 21:10

So the congregation sent thither twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, “Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.