6And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.
7What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.
8And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting.
9For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.
10So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.
11And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.
12Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
