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Nombres 31:17

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17 Maintenant donc tuez tout mâle parmi les petits enfants, et tuez toute femme qui aura eu compagnie d'homme;

Nombres 31:17 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:17

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones
Which they had taken and brought captives, ( Numbers 31:9 )

and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him;
who might be such, at least many of them, who had lain with Israelitish men; and as the adulterers had been put to death, so now the adulteresses; or they were ordered to, be slain, even all of them, lest they should entice the children of Israel to uncleanness, and so to idolatry again: now these were known to be such, either by conjecture at their age, or rather, through the examination of matrons, unless it can be thought, as it is by some, that it was by divine revelation.

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Nombres 31:17 In-Context

15 Et Moïse leur dit: Vous avez laissé la vie à toutes les femmes?
16 Voici, ce sont elles qui, d'après la parole de Balaam, ont donné occasion aux enfants d'Israël de commettre un crime contre l'Éternel dans l'affaire de Peor, ce qui attira la plaie sur l'assemblée de l'Éternel.
17 Maintenant donc tuez tout mâle parmi les petits enfants, et tuez toute femme qui aura eu compagnie d'homme;
18 Mais laissez vivre, pour vous, toutes les jeunes filles qui n'ont point eu compagnie d'homme.
19 Quant à vous, campez sept jours hors du camp. Quiconque a tué quelqu'un, et quiconque a touché quelqu'un de tué, qu'il se purifie le troisième jour et le septième jour, lui et ses prisonniers.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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