Numbers 31:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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.