But all the girls who have not known man by lying with him, y’all are to keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers 31:17 - Y'all Version Bible So now therefore y’all must kill every male among the children, 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 girls who have not known man by lying with him, y’all are to keep alive for yourselves.
When YHWH your God delivers it into your hand, you are to strike every male of it with the edge of the sword,
and when YHWH your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then must destroy-destroy them. You are not to make a covenant with them or show mercy to them.
The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Y’all are to go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and the children.