Judges 21:11
And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.
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- Num 31:17-18 : 17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man. 18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
- Deut 2:34 : 34 At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:
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9 For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.
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17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.
18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
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21 And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.
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13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
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15 So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.
16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:
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