10 And the congregation sent twelve thousand [a]of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and (A)strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, along with the women and the children. 11 And this is the thing that you shall do: you (B)shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has [b]slept with a male.” 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known a man by [c]sleeping with him; 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 Lit men from the sons of valor
  2. Judges 21:11 Lit known the bed of
  3. Judges 21:12 Lit the bed of a male

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