Judges 21:11-13
Contemporary English Version
10-11 So they sent 12,000 warriors with these orders: “Attack Jabesh in Gilead and kill everyone, except the women who have never been married.”
12 The warriors attacked Jabesh in Gilead, and returned to their camp at Shiloh in Canaan[a] with 400 young women.
13 The Israelites met and sent messengers to the men of Benjamin at Rimmon Rock, telling them that the Israelites were willing to make peace with them.
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- 21.12 in Canaan: Jabesh was in Gilead, across the Jordan River from the land of Canaan.
Judges 21:11-13
New International Version
11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male(A) and every woman who is not a virgin.(B)” 12 They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh(C) in Canaan.
13 Then the whole assembly sent an offer of peace(D) to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon.(E)
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