12 ¶ And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes ^arent, and with earth upon his head.

  12 And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—^aIn memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.