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Numbers 31:17
Numbers 31:17 is verse 17 of Numbers chapter 31, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,
King James Version
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
World English Bible
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
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Numbers 31:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 “Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.
16 “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
17 So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,
18 but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
19 All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Judges 21:11This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
Judges 21:12So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.