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What can be done to provide wives for those who remain? We have sworn by the Lord not to give any of our daughters to them as wives.”

So then they asked, “Was there anyone from the tribes of Israel who did not go up to the Lord at Mizpah?” They found that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the assembly at the camp. In fact, when the roll call had been taken, not a man was there from the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead.

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