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Guardians escort the women of Jabesh-gilead into camp.
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Judges 21:8-12

Women brought to Shiloh

A Tribe Preserved · Judges 21

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8And they said, “Which one of the tribes of Israel did not go up to Yahweh at Mizpah?” And behold, not a man from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp, to the assembly.

9And the people were mustered, and behold, there was not a man there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.

10So the assembly sent there twelve thousand men from the sons of valor, and they commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and the little ones.”

11And this is what you shall do: every male, and every woman who has known the bed of a male, you shall devote to destruction.

12And from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young women, virgins, who had not known a man by lying with a male; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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