Judges - 21:11



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

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Explanation and meaning of Judges 21:11.

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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.
This is what you shall do; every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy.|
And this is the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'
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.
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.
And this shall be what you ought to do: "Every one 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."

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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

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.

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