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Judges 21:11

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This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”

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Judges 21:11 in other translations

And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

Judges 21:11 · American Standard Version

Judges 21:11 in context

  1. 9For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.
  2. 10The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
  3. 11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
  4. 12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
  5. 13The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.