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Judges 21:16

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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?

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Judges 21:16 in other translations

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

Judges 21:16 · World English Bible

Judges 21:16 in context

  1. 14And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
  2. 15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
  3. 16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
  4. 17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
  5. 18Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.