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and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Yisra'el, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gevah of Binyamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Yisra'el.
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So all the men of Yisra'el were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
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The tribes of Yisra'el sent men through all the tribe of Binyamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you?
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Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gevah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Yisra'el. But Binyamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Yisra'el.
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The children of Binyamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gevah, to go out to battle against the children of Yisra'el.
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The children of Binyamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gevah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
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Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
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The men of Yisra'el, besides Binyamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.
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The children of Yisra'el arose, and went up to Beit-El, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Binyamin? the LORD said, Yehudah [shall go up] first.
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The children of Yisra'el rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gevah.
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The men of Yisra'el went out to battle against Binyamin; and the men of Yisra'el set the battle in array against them at Gevah.