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Brenton's Septuagint

Judges 21:11

And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote to destruction, but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Captive;   Discipline;   Jabesh-Gilead;   Rashness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Benjamin, Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gibeah;   Gilead;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jabesh-Gilead;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jabesh (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Accursed;   Jabesh-Gilead;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ban;   Benjamin;   Jabesh, Jabesh-Gilead;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Samson;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Excommunication (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;   Jabesh;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'besh;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ban;   Jabesh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what you should do: Completely destroy every male, as well as every woman who has gone to bed with a man.”
Hebrew Names Version
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.
King James Version
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Lexham English Bible
This is the thing you will do: you will destroy every man and every woman who had sex with a man."
English Standard Version
This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction."
New Century Version
"This is what you must do: Kill every man in Jabesh Gilead and every married woman."
New English Translation
Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has had sexual relations with a male. But spare the lives of any virgins." So they did as instructed.
Amplified Bible
"And this is the thing that you shall do; you shall utterly destroy every male and every woman who is not a virgin."
New American Standard Bible
"And this is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has slept with a male."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And this is it that ye shall do: ye shall vtterly destroye all the males and all the women that haue lien by men.
Legacy Standard Bible
En dit is die ding wat julle moet doen: Alles wat manlik is, en al die vroue wat die gemeenskap met die man ken, moet julle met die banvloek tref.
Complete Jewish Bible
Completely destroy every man and every woman who has had sex with a man."
Darby Translation
And this is the thing which ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain with man.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must do this! You must kill every man in Jabesh Gilead and every woman who has had sexual relations with a man. But do not kill any woman who has never had sex with a man." So the soldiers did these things.
George Lamsa Translation
And this is the thing that you must do, You must utterly destroy every male and every woman that has lain with a man.
Good News Translation
Kill all the males, and also every woman who is not a virgin."
Literal Translation
And this is the thing which you shall do. You shall destroy every male and every woman who has been known by lying with a male.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but so that ye do after this maner: Se that ye damne all them that are males, and all the wemen that haue lyen with men.
American Standard Version
And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And this is it that ye shall do: ye shall vtterly destroy all the males, and al the women that haue lyen by men.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.'
King James Version (1611)
And this is the thing that yee shall doe, Yee shall vtterly destroy euery male, and euery woman that hath lien by man.
English Revised Version
And this is the thing that ye shall do; ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And this thing schal be, which ye `owen to kepe, sle ye alle of male kynde, and the wymmen, that knewen men fleischli; reserue ye the virgyns.
Young's Literal Translation
And this [is] the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'
Update Bible Version
And this is the thing that you shall do: you shall completely destroy every male, and every woman that has had sex with a man.
Webster's Bible Translation
And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
World English Bible
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.
New King James Version
And this is the thing that you shall do: You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has known a man intimately."
New Living Translation
"This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin."
New Life Bible
This is what you must do. Destroy every man and every woman who has had a man."
New Revised Standard
This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, this, is the thing that ye shall do, - Every male, and every woman that hath cohabited with man, shall ye devote to destruction.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain with a man."

Contextual Overview

1 Now the children of Israel swore in Massephath, saying, No man of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife. 2 And the people came to Baethel, and sat there until evening before God: and they lifted up their voice and wept with a great weeping; 3 and said, Wherefore, O Lord God of Israel, has this come to pass, that to-day one tribe should be counted as missing from Israel? 4 And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose up early, and built there an altar, and offered up whole-burnt-offerings and peace offerings. 5 And the children of Israel said, Who of all the tribes of Israel, went not up in the congregation to the Lord? for there was a great oath concerning those who went not up to the Lord to Massephath, saying, He shall surely be put to death. 6 And the children of Israel relented toward Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day one tribe is cut off from Israel. 7 What shall we do for wives for the rest that remain? whereas we have sworn by the Lord, not to give them of our daughters for wives. 8 And they said, What one man is there of the tribes of Israel, who went not up to the Lord to Massephath? and, behold, no man came to the camp from Jabis Galaad to the assembly. 9 And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad. 10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the strongest, and they charged them, saying, Go ye and smite the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad with the edge of the sword.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

every male: Numbers 31:17, Numbers 31:18, Deuteronomy 2:34

hath lain by man: Heb. knoweth the lying with man

Reciprocal: Leviticus 27:28 - no devoted Numbers 31:7 - all Jeremiah 44:7 - to cut

Cross-References

Genesis 17:18
And Abraam said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee.
Genesis 21:1
And the Lord visited Sarrha, as he said, and the Lord did to Sarrha, as he spoke.
Genesis 21:2
And she conceived and bore to Abraam a son in old age, at the set time according as the Lord spoke to him.
2 Samuel 18:33
And the king was troubled, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and thus he said as he went, My son Abessalom, my son, my son Abessalom; would God I had died for thee, even I had died for thee, Abessalom, my son, my son!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And this is the thing that ye shall do,.... Which they gave them in charge to execute:

ye shall utterly destroy every male; without any reserve, young or old, married or unmarried:

and every woman that hath lain by man; whether lawfully or unlawfully, in a married or unmarried state.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye shall utterly destroy - More exactly, “Ye shall devote to utter destruction,” or “cherem” (Leviticus 27:28 note).


 
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