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10 And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men from the troops, and they commanded them, saying, “Go, strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword,[a] and the women and children. 11 This is the thing you will do: you will destroy[b] every man and every woman who had sex with a man.”[c] 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins[d] who had not had sex with a man,[e] and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:10 Literally “the mouth of the sword”
  2. Judges 21:11 Literally “you will devote to destruction”
  3. Judges 21:11 Literally “every woman who knows the bed of a man”
  4. Judges 21:12 Hebrew “virgin”
  5. Judges 21:12 Literally “known a man, as far as the bed of a male”