Numbers 31:17

WEB

¹⁷Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

KJV

¹⁷Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

BSB

¹⁷So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,

FBV

¹⁷So go and kill all the boys, and every woman who has slept with a man.

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 20:16-18

¹⁶But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; ¹⁷but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you; ¹⁸that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.

Judges 21:11-12

¹¹This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.” ¹²They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

Deuteronomy 7:2

²and when the LORD your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.