The Judgment on Jabesh-gilead

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And they say, `Who is that one out of the tribes of Israel who hath not come up unto Jehovah to Mizpeh?' and lo, none hath come in unto the camp from Jabesh-Gilead--unto the assembly.

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And the people numbered themselves, and lo, there is not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.

10

And the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, `Go--and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

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And this is the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'

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And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who are in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;

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and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for all of them so.

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And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

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