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Judges 21:11

9 For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.

10 So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.

This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”

12 So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

13 Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.

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BSB
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
KJV
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
WEB
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
ASV
And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
DARBY
And this is the thing which ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain with man.
BLB
And this [is] the thing that you⁺ shall do: Every male and every woman knowing the lying of a male you⁺ shall devote to destruction.”
ÅB
Slik skal dere gjøre: Alt mannkjønn og hver kvinne som har hatt samleie med noen mann, skal dere slå med bann.
OTB
«Dette er hva dere skal gjøre,» befalte de. «Ødelegg hver mann og hver kvinne som har ligget med en mann.»
B1930
Således skal I gjøre: Alt mannkjønn og hver kvinne som har hatt samleie med nogen mann, skal I slå med bann.

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