For when the people were [a]numbered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there. 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 [b]lain with a man.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:9 Or mustered
  2. Judges 21:11 Lit known lying with