Judges 21
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Judges 21:8-14

8And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to the Lord at Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. 9For when the people were 1numbered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there. 10And the congregation sent 12,000 of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and 2strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. 11This is the thing that you shall do: you 3shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has 4lain with a man.” 12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with 5him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13Then the whole congregation sent word and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were 6at the rock of Rimmon, and 7proclaimed peace to them. 14Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the women of Jabesh-gilead; yet they 8were not enough for them.

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Notes

  1. 1. Judges 21:9 Or mustered ↩
  2. 2. Judges 21:10 Num 31:17; Judg 5:23; 1 Sam 11:7 ↩
  3. 3. Judges 21:11 Num 31:17 ↩
  4. 4. Judges 21:11 Lit known lying with ↩
  5. 5. Judges 21:12 Lit a male ↩
  6. 6. Judges 21:13 Judg 20:47 ↩
  7. 7. Judges 21:13 Deut 20:10 ↩
  8. 8. Judges 21:14 Lit did not find it so ↩

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