Numbers 31:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ 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

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

Deuteronomy 20:13

and when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thine hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew 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 Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.