¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

² and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

¹⁶ But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

¹⁷ but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

¹⁸ that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

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