9. When the people were counted, indeed, there was not a man there from among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead.
10. So the assembly sent twelve thousand valorous men there and commanded them, “Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including women and children.
11. This is what you will do: You will kill every man and every woman who has slept with a man.”
12. So among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
13. Then the whole assembly sent someone to speak to the Benjamites who were at Rimmon Rock, and they declared peace.
14. So the Benjamites returned at that time, and they gave to them the women who were still alive from among the women of Jabesh Gilead. Yet they did not find enough for them.
15. The people felt sorry for Benjamin, for the Lord had made a gap among the tribes of Israel.