Verse 12
Judges 21:12
Darby Translation
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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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יִּמְצְא֞וּ מִ/יּוֹשְׁבֵ֣י יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֗ד אַרְבַּ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ נַעֲרָ֣ה בְתוּלָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא יָדְעָ֛ה אִ֖ישׁ לְ/מִשְׁכַּ֣ב זָכָ֑ר וַ/יָּבִ֨יאוּ אוֹתָ֤/ם אֶל הַֽ/מַּחֲנֶה֙ שִׁלֹ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן
English Translation
And the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead found four hundred young women who were virgins and had not known a man for lying with a male, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 21 Context
1
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to th...
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And the people came to Bethel, and abode there till even before God (Elohim), and lifted up their vo...
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and said, Jehovah, God (Elohim) of Israel, why is it come to pass in Israel, that there should be th...
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4
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered...
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5
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with t...
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6
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day is one tribe e...
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7
What shall we do for wives for them that remain? since we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not giv...
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8
And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpah to Jehovah? And...
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9
for the people were numbered, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead there.
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10
And the assembly sent thither twelve thousand men of the most valiant and commanded them, saying, Go...
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11
And this is the thing which ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that h...
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12
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women that were virgins, wh...
13
And the whole assembly sent to speak to the children of Benjamin that were at the cliff of Rimmon, a...
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14
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them the wives whom they had saved alive of the...
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15
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel...
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16
And the elders of the assembly said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women...
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17
And they said, There must be a possession for those of Benjamin that have escaped, that a tribe be n...
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18
But we cannot give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Curse...
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19
And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the nort...
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20
And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
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21
and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of th...
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22
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain to us, that we will say to th...
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And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives, according to their number, of them that danced,...
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24
And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, a...
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25
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
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