9. For when the people called a roll, see, not one of the inhabitants of Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ was there.
10. And the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, saying, “Go, and you shall smite the inhabitants of Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ with the edge of the sword, even the women and children.
11. “And this is what you do: Put under the ban every male, and every woman who has known a man by lying with him.”