11. Now this is the thing that you will do: you are to utterly destroy every male and every woman who has lain with a man.”
12. So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known man by lying with him. They brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
13. Then the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed shalom to them.
14. When Benjamin returned at that time, they gave them the women whom they had spared from the women of Jabesh-gilead. Yet they were not enough for them.
15. So the people were sorry for Benjamin because Adonai had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16. Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who are left, since the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?”