10 So the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their most valiant men, and commanded them, saying, ^a“Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and children.  ‡

11 And this is the thing that you shall do: ^aYou shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has known a man intimately.”  ‡

13 Then the whole congregation sent word to the children of Benjamin ^awho were at the rock of Rimmon, and announced peace to them.  ‡

14 So Benjamin came back at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead; and yet they had not found enough for them.