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8 Then they asked, |Is there any family from Israel that did not come into the presence of the LORD at Mizpah?| No one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the assembly in the camp. 9 So they questioned the people, and there was no one there from Jabesh Gilead. 10 The congregation sent 12,000 soldiers. They ordered them, |Go and kill the people of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and children. 11 These are your directions: Claim every female who has gone to bed with a man, and claim every male. Claim them for the LORD by destroying them.| 12 Among the people of Jabesh Gilead they found 400 unmarried women who had never gone to bed with a man. They brought them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan. Judges 21:8-12, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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