Judges 21:11

Wives for the Benjamites

10So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children. 11This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”

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Berean Standard Bible
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
American Standard Version (1901)
And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Free Bible Version
This is what you have to do: Destroy every male and every woman who has had sex with a man.”
Geneva Bible 1599
And this is it that ye shall do: ye shall vtterly destroye all the males and all the women that haue lien by men.
King James (Authorized) Version
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Translation for Translators
They told this to those men: “This is what you must do: You must kill every man in Jabesh-Gilead. You must also kill every married woman. But do not kill the unmarried women.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
“Do this: You must kill every male and every woman who has slept with a man.”
Noah Webster Bible
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
World English Bible
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
Young's Literal Translation
And this [is] the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'