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And the assembly sent thither twelve thousand men of the most valiant and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead with the edge of the sword, and the women and the children.
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And this is the thing which ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain with man.
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And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women that were virgins, who had known no man by lying with any male, and they brought them to the camp, to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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And the whole assembly sent to speak to the children of Benjamin that were at the cliff of Rimmon, and to proclaim peace to them.
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And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them the wives whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead; but even so they found not enough for them.
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And the people repented them for Benjamin, because Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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And the elders of the assembly said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.
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And they said, There must be a possession for those of Benjamin that have escaped, that a tribe be not blotted out of Israel.
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But we cannot give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to the Benjaminites!
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And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, toward the sun-rising of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
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And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;