Numbers 31:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

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  • Deut 7:2 : 2 and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.
  • Deut 20:16-18 : 16 `Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee `for' an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing; 17 for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, 18 so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.
  • Judg 21:11-12 : 11 And this `is' the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.' 12 And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which `is' in the land of Canaan.

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  • Num 31:18-19
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    18and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

    19`And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days -- any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day -- ye and your captives;

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    10And the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, `Go -- and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

    11And this `is' the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'

    12And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which `is' in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 31:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

    16lo, they -- they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.

  • Num 31:7-10
    4 verses
    78%

    7And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;

    8and the kings of Midian they have slain, besides their pierced ones, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam son of Beor, they have slain with the sword.

    9And the sons of Israel take captive the women of Midian, and their infants; and all their cattle, and all their substance, and all their wealth they have plundered;

    10and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.

  • 3Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'

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    13and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.

    14Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee.

  • Ezek 9:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5And to the others he said in mine ears, `Pass on into the city after him, and smite; your eye doth not pity, nor do ye spare;

    6aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay -- to destruction; and against any man on whom `is' the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

  • 21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

  • 35and of human beings -- of the women who have not known the lying of a male -- all the persons `are' two and thirty thousand.

  • 34and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants -- we have not left a remnant;

  • 16and saith, `When ye cause the Hebrew women to bear, and have looked on the children; if it `is' a son -- then ye have put him to death; and if it `is' a daughter -- then she hath lived.'

  • 6and we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants;

  • 27and he saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Put each his sword by his thigh, pass over and turn back from gate to gate through the camp, and slay each his brother, and each his friend, and each his relation.'

  • Lev 20:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15`And a man who giveth his lying with a beast is certainly put to death, and the beast ye do slay.

    16`And a woman who draweth near unto any beast to lie with it -- thou hast even slain the woman and the beast; they are certainly put to death; their blood `is' on them.

  • 5And Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, `Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.'

  • Num 25:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

    17`Distress the Midianites, and ye have smitten them,

  • 7`And, now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Why are ye doing great evil unto your own souls, to cut off to you man and woman, infant and suckling, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave to you a remnant:

  • 13and every one who doth not seek for Jehovah, God of Israel, is put to death, from small unto great, from man unto woman.

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    24then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: -- the damsel, because that she hath not cried, `being' in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

    25`And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone;

  • 15`Thou dost surely smite the inhabitants of that city by the mouth of the sword; devoting it, and all that `is' in it, even its cattle, by the mouth of the sword;

  • 21and they devote all that `is' in the city, from man even unto woman, from young even unto aged, even unto ox, and sheep, and ass, by the mouth of the sword.

  • Num 31:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

    2`Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites -- afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'

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    21then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring `in' her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

    22`When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.

  • 24and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

  • 10They have uncovered her nakedness, Her sons and her daughters they have taken, And her by sword they have slain, And she is a name for women, And judgments they have done with her.

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    16`Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee `for' an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;

    17for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee,

  • 16`And it cometh to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people,

  • 47And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn.

  • 3`Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;

  • 22And Balaam, son of Beor, the diviner, have the sons of Israel slain with the sword, among their wounded ones.

  • 10`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,

  • 13`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood `is' on them.

  • 16And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives -- for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'

  • 8and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman -- unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;

  • 20`And when a man lieth with a woman with seed of copulation, and she a maid-servant, betrothed to a man, and not really ransomed, or freedom hath not been given to her, an investigation there is; they are not put to death, for she `is' not free.