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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 31 contains 54 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.