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Judges 21:16

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Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

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Judges 21:16 in other translations

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Judges 21:16 · American Standard Version

Judges 21:16 in context

  1. 14Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
  2. 15The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
  3. 16Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
  4. 17They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
  5. 18However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”