Numbers 31:17
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
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Gill's Exposition
And do ye abide without the camp seven days..... Which was the time that anyone that touched a dead body remained unclean, Num 19:11,
whosoever hath killed any person; as most of them if not all…
Commands to complete the destruction of the enemy. All male children and all women who are not virgins are to be killed in cold blood. This cruel command ascribed to Moses dates from an age when the…