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The people were counted, and no one was there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead. 10 And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men from the troops, and they commanded them, saying, “Go, strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword,[a] and the women and children. 11 This is the thing you will do: you will destroy[b] every man and every woman who had sex with a man.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:10 Literally “the mouth of the sword”
  2. Judges 21:11 Literally “you will devote to destruction”
  3. Judges 21:11 Literally “every woman who knows the bed of a man”