Numbers 31:17 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁷ “And now, slay every male among the little ones. And every woman who has known a man by lying with a man you shall slay.

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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.

Numbers 31:17 Cross References

Numbers 31:18

“But keep alive for yourselves all the female children who have not known a man by lying with a man.

Deuteronomy 20:13

and יהוה  your Elohim shall give it into your hands, and you shall smite every male in it with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 7:2

“And when יהוה  your Elohim gives them over to you, you shall smite them and put them under the ban, completely. Make no covenant with them, and show them no favour.

Judges 21:10

And the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, saying, “Go, and you shall smite the inhabitants of Yaḇ