10 Therefore the Congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the [a]most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, both women and children.

11 (A)And this is it that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy all the males, and all the women that have lain by men.

12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred maids, virgins that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the host to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:10 Hebrew, children of strength.

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