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5 And the children of Israel said, Who of all the tribes of Israel, went not up in the congregation to the Lord? For there was a great oath concerning those who went not up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
6 And the children of Israel relented toward Benjamin their brother, and said, Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.
7 What shall we do for wives for the rest that remain? Whereas we have sworn by the Lord, not to give them of our daughters for wives.
8 And they said, What one man is there of the tribes of Israel, who went not up to the Lord to Mizpah? And behold, no man came to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.
9 And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead.
10 And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the strongest, and they charged them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword.
11 And this shall you do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with a man you shall devote to destruction, but the virgins you shall save alive: and they did so.