◄ Judges 21:17 ►
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Good News Translation
Israel must not lose one of its twelve tribes. We must find a way for the tribe of Benjamin to survive,

New Revised Standard Version
And they said, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, in order that a tribe may not be blotted out from Israel.

Contemporary English Version
If they don't have children, one of the Israelite tribes will die out.

New American Bible
They said, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

an inheritance

Numbers 26:55 Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.

Numbers 36:7 Lest the possession of the children of Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe. For all men shall marry wives of their own tribe and kindred:

Context
Wives for the Benjamites
…16And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have not received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead. 17And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.18For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound with an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give Benjamin any of his daughters to wife.…
Cross References
Judges 21:16
And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have not received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.

Judges 21:18
For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound with an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give Benjamin any of his daughters to wife.

Judges 21:16
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