Generate a correctly punctuated version of the following text: And the ancients of Jabes said to him Allow us seven days that we may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel and if there be no one to defend us we will come out to thee
And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Allow us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel: and if there be no one to defend us, we will come out to thee.