Numbers 31:17
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
KJV
ergo cunctos interficite quidquid est generis masculini, etiam in parvulis : et mulieres, quæ noverunt viros in coitu, jugulate :
Vulgate
καὶ νῦν ἀποκτείνατε πᾶν ἀρσενικὸν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ ἀπαρτίᾳ, καὶ πᾶσαν γυναῖκα ἥτις ἔγνωκεν κοίτην ἄρσενος ἀποκτείνατε·
LXX
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
ASV
וְ/עַתָּ֕ה הִרְג֥וּ כָל זָכָ֖ר בַּ/טָּ֑ף וְ/כָל אִשָּׁ֗ה יֹדַ֥עַת אִ֛ישׁ לְ/מִשְׁכַּ֥ב זָכָ֖ר הֲרֹֽגוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
וֹ
v
noun · 45×
זְּכָרִֽים
zkrym
noun · 82×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 167×
נוּ
nv
noun · 42×
עַתָּ֗ה
'th
adverb · 433×
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Sam 15:3 — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
- Deut 7:2 — And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
- Deut 20:16 — But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
- Judg 21:11 — And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
- Judg 21:11 — And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.