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11 This is the thing you will do: you will destroy[a] every man and every woman who had sex with a man.”[b] 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins[c] who had not had sex with a man,[d] and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 Then the congregation sent and spoke all this to the descendants[e] of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and they assured them they would not be hurt.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:11 Literally “you will devote to destruction”
  2. Judges 21:11 Literally “every woman who knows the bed of a man”
  3. Judges 21:12 Hebrew “virgin”
  4. Judges 21:12 Literally “known a man, as far as the bed of a male”
  5. Judges 21:13 Or “sons/children”
  6. Judges 21:13 Literally “they proclaimed peace to them”