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

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who is not a virgin.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Now kill every male child and every female who has known a man intimately by sleeping with him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ 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

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.

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.