But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers 31:17 - English Standard Version 2016 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who is not a virgin. American Standard Version (1901) Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. Common English Bible Now kill every male child and every female who has known a man intimately by sleeping with him. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women that have carnally known men. |
But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.
And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword,
and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.