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Judges 20:9-13 Good News Bible (GNB)

9. This is what we will do: we will draw lots and choose some men to attack Gibeah.

10. One tenth of the men in Israel will provide food for the army, and the others will go and punish Gibeah for this immoral act that they have committed in Israel.”

11. So all the men in Israel assembled with one purpose — to attack the town.

12. The Israelite tribes sent messengers all through the territory of the tribe of Benjamin to say, “What is this crime that you have committed?

13. Now hand over those perverts in Gibeah, so that we can kill them and remove this evil from Israel.” But the people of Benjamin paid no attention to the other Israelites.

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