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What can we do to find wives for those who are left? For we swore by the Lord not to give them our daughters as wives.” So they said, “Is there anyone from among the tribes of Israel who did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah?” Then they learned that no one from the camp of Jabesh Gilead had come to the assembly. When the people were counted, indeed, there was not a man there from among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead.

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