So the community sent twelve thousand of their fighting men there, with orders: “Go and put the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead to the sword, including the women and children.
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8Then they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?” And they discovered that no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp, to the assembly. 9When the roll was called, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there. 10So the community sent twelve thousand of their fighting men there, with orders: “Go and put the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead to the sword, including the women and children. 11This is what you are to do: devote to destruction every male, and every woman who has slept with a man.” 12Among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, in the land of Canaan.
