⁹ 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]