Judges 21:11

And this is the thing … do Similarly Judges 20:9.

ye shall utterly destroy The city and all its inhabitants were to become ḥérem, placed under the ban, for not taking part in the holy war against Benjamin; cf. Judges 20:48 n.This episode is based upon Numbers 31:7; Numbers 31:17 f. (a late stratum of P). The writer again betrays his forgetfulness: he fails to copy his model in the important particular ye shall keep alive the virgins for yourselvesNumbers 31:18. The words are accordingly supplied by LXX. cod. B and mss.