Judges 21:11
Modern Translations
New International Version
"This is what you are to do," they said. "Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin."

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.”

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.”

Berean Study 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.”

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.”

NASB 1995
"This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain with a man."

NASB 1977
“And this is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain with a man.”

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.”

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.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is what you should do: Completely destroy every male, as well as every female who has slept with a man."

Good News Translation
Kill all the males, and also every woman who is not a virgin."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These are your directions: Claim every female who has gone to bed with a man, and claim every male. Claim them for the LORD by destroying them."

International Standard Version
You're to completely destroy every man and every married woman."

NET Bible
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.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath 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.”

King James 2000 Bible
And this is the thing that you shall do, you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that has lain with a man.

New Heart English Bible
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has slept with a man, but the virgins you are to keep alive." And they did so.

World English Bible
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man."

American King James Version
And this is the thing that you shall do, You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that has lain by man.

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.

A Faithful Version
And this is the thing that you shall do. You shall utterly destroy every male and every woman who has lain with man."

Darby Bible Translation
And this is the thing which ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain with 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.

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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 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.

Bishops' Bible of 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.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And amonge the citesins of Iabes in Gilead they foude foure hundreth damsels, which were virgins, and had lyen with noman: those they broughte in to the hoost vnto Silo, which lyeth in the londe of Canaan.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And this [is] the thing which you do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, you devote.”

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.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And this the word which ye shall do: every male and every woman knowing the bed of a male ye shall exterminate.

Catholic Translations
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And this shall be what you ought to do: “Everyone of the male gender, as well as all the women who have known men, shall be put to death. But the virgins you shall reserve.”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
In this way, do: “Destroy every man and every woman with whom a man has had sexual intercourse”,

Lamsa Bible
And this is the thing that you must do, You must utterly destroy every male and every woman that has lain with a man.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.
















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