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All the people then rose up as one man. They said, “Not one of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us return to their homes. Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will determine who goes against it by choosing lots. 10 We will choose ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel—and a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand—to gather provisions for the troops. When the men of Israel arrive at Gibeah[a] in Benjamin, Israel can do to the men of Gibeah what they deserve for all the disgraceful things they did in Israel.”

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  1. Judges 20:10 The translation follows a minority Hebrew reading. Most Hebrew manuscripts read Geba.