Judges 21:8-12 ▼

8 So they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

9 Indeed the people were numbered, but behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.

10 And the congregation sent 12,000 of the men of valor 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.

11 Now this is the thing that you shall do: you shall devote to destruction every man and every woman who has known, that is lain with, a man.”

12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.