Parallel Verses
NET Bible
The Lord your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
New American Standard Bible
When the Lord your God gives it into your hand,
King James Version
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Holman Bible
When the Lord your God hands it over to you, you must strike down all its males with the sword.
International Standard Version
The LORD your God will deliver it into your control, and you must execute every male.
A Conservative Version
And when LORD thy God delivers it into thy hand, thou shall smite every male of it with the edge of the sword,
American Standard Version
and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Amplified
When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike down all the men in it with the edge of the sword.
Bible in Basic English
And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
Darby Translation
and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Julia Smith Translation
And Jehovah thy God gave it into thy hand, and thou didst cut off every one of its males by the mouth of the sword.
King James 2000
And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword:
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall kill all its males with the {edge} of [the] sword.
Modern King James verseion
And when Jehovah your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sword,
New Heart English Bible
and when the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
The Emphasized Bible
and Yahweh thy God will deliver it into thy hand, - and thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword;
Webster
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, thou shalt smite every male of it with the edge of the sword:
World English Bible
and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
Youngs Literal Translation
and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.
Interlinear
'elohiym
Nathan
Yad
Nakah
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Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 20:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
12 If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it. 13 The Lord your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword. 14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city -- all its plunder -- you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.
Names
Cross References
Numbers 31:7-9
They fought against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
Numbers 31:17-18
Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.
1 Kings 11:15-16
During David's campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.
Psalm 2:6-12
"I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill."
Psalm 21:8-9
You prevail over all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you.
Psalm 110:1
A psalm of David. Here is the Lord's proclamation to my lord: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"
Luke 19:27
But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!'"
2 Thessalonians 1:7-9
and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.