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The Book of Judges, Chapter 20, Verse 7

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And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
King James Version
Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
American Standard Version
Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
New English Translation
All you Israelites, make a decision here!”
World English Bible
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel."
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And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his house.
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But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it;
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And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
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So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
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And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?
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Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
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But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
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And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
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Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss.
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And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.