Numbers 31:7
Good News Translation
They attacked Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and killed all the men,

New Revised Standard Version
They did battle against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and killed every male.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites fought against the Midianites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. They killed all the men,

New American Bible
They waged war against the Midianites, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and killed every male.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.

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Deuteronomy 20:13,14 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the sword, . . .

Judges 21:11 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.

1 Samuel 27:9 And David wasted all the land, and left neither man nor woman alive: and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achis.

1 Kings 11:15,16 For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of the army, was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in Edom, . . .

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Judges 6:1,2,33 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years, . . .

Context
Vengeance on Midian
6And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest, and he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to sound. 7And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.8And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:13
And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy hands, thou shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the sword,

Judges 21:11
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.

1 Kings 11:15
For when David was in Edom, and Joab, the general of the army, was gone up to bury them that were slain, and had killed every male in Edom,

1 Kings 11:16
(For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had slain every male in Edom,)

Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their iniquity, the curtains of the land of Madian shall be troubled.

Numbers 31:6
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