Numbers 31:17 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

So kill all the Midianite boys and every Midianite woman who has gone to bed with a man.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

ASV:

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

BBE:

So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

DBY:

And now slay every male among the little ones, and slay every woman that hath known man by lying with him,

ERV:

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

JPS:

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

WBS:

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

WEB:

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

YLT:

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

Numbers 31:17 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

Deuteronomy 20:16 "Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the {g} little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
(g) That is, all the boy children.

WES:

31:17 The little ones - Which they were forbidden to do to other people, Deu 20:14, except the Canaanites, to whom this people had equaled themselves by their horrid crimes, and therefore it is not strange, nor unjust, that God, the supreme Lord of all mens lives, who as he gives them, so may take them away when he pleaseth, did equal them in the punishment. Every woman - Partly for punishment, because the guilt was general, and though some of them only did prostitute themselves to the Israelites, yet the rest made themselves accessary by their consent or approbation; and partly, for prevention of the like mischief from such an adulterous generation.

MHC:

31:13-18 The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty. This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a guilty nation, in which the women were the worst criminals. The female children were spared, who, being brought up among the Israelites, would not tempt them to idolatry. The whole history shows the hatefulness of sin, and the guilt of tempting others; it teaches us to avoid all occasions of evil, and to give no quarter to inward lusts. The women and children were not kept for sinful purposes, but for slaves, a custom every where practised in former times, as to captives. In the course of providence, when famine and plagues visit a nation for sin, children suffer in the common calamity. In this case parents are punished in their children; and for children dying before actual sin, full provision is made as to their eternal happiness, by the mercy of God in Christ.

CONC:

Boys Child Death Infants Intimately Kill Lying Male Ones Relations Sex Slain Slay Slept Yea

Boys Child Death Infants Intimately Kill Little Male Ones Relations Sex Slain Slept

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