And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
And they warred against the Mid´i-anites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
And they found among the inhabitants of Ja´besh–gil´e-ad four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.