⁹ Indeed the people were ^[a]numbered, but behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there. ¹⁰ And the congregation sent 12,000 of the men of valor 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 Now this is the thing that you shall do: you ^(B)shall devote to destruction every man and every woman who has known, that is lain with, a man.”