Judges 21:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 This is what you are to do: Every male and every woman who has had relations with a male you shall put under the ban.”[a](A) 12 Finding among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgin women, who had not had relations with a man, they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, in the land of Canaan.(B) 13 Then the whole assembly sent word to the Benjaminites at the crag of Rimmon,(C) offering them peace.
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- 21:11 Under the ban: see note on 1:17. In this case the sanction is imposed not because of the rules for the conquest of the promised land (cf. Dt 20:10–18) but because of the failure of the men of Jabesh-gilead to honor their oath and report for the assembly.
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