^21:11Do this:¹⁵ exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has had sexual relations with a male.¹⁶ But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.¹⁷

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Footnotes

15 Heb “And this is the thing that you will do.”
16 Heb “every woman who is familiar with the bed of a male.”
17 Some Greek witnesses (notably Codex Vaticanus [B]) add the words, “ ‘But the virgins you should keep alive.’ And they did so.” These additional words, which probably represent the original Hebrew text, can be retroverted: וְאֶת־הַבְּתוּלוֹת תְּחַיּוּ וַיַּעֲשׂוּ כֵן (ve’et-habbétulot tékhayyu vayya’asu khen). It is likely that a scribe’s eye jumped from the vav (ו) on וְאֶת (vé’et) to the initial vav of v. 11, accidentally leaving out the intervening letters. The present translation is based on this reconstruction.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin.”

CSBChristian 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.”

NLTNew Living Translation

“This is what you are to do,” they said. “Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

This is the thing you will do: you will destroy every man and every woman who had sex with a man.”

KJV 1900King 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.

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