Numbers 31:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.

Cross References

Numbers 31:18

But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping 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. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.

Judges 21:10

So the congregation sent twelve thousand soldiers there and commanded them, “Go, put the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead to the sword, including the women and the little ones.