◄ Judges 21:11 ►
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Good News Translation
Kill all the males, and also every woman who is not a virgin."

New Revised Standard Version
This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”

New American Bible
This is what you are to do: Every male and every woman who has had relations with a male you shall put under the ban.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.

every male

Numbers 31:17,18 Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men. . . .

Deuteronomy 2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

Context
Wives for the Benjamites
…10So they sent ten thousand of the most valiant men, and commanded them, saying: Go and put the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad to the sword, with their wives and their children. 11And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.12And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in Silo, into the land of Chanaan.…
Cross References
Numbers 31:7
And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.

Numbers 31:17
Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

Judges 21:12
And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in Silo, into the land of Chanaan.

Judges 21:10
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