11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.|


In Context

8 They said, |What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?| Behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

9 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.

10 The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, |Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.|

12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

Judges 21:11 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:11And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:11And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:11And this is what you shall observe: Every male, and all women that have known men, you shall kill, but the virgins you shall save.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:11This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy.|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:11And this is the thing that ye shall do; ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:11And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:11And this is the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:11And this is the thing that you shall do, You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that has lain by man.