10 And the congregation sent 12,000 of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and (A)strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. 11 This is the thing that you shall do: you (B)shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has [a]lain with a man.” 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with [b]him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:11 Lit known lying with
  2. Judges 21:12 Lit a male