Judges 21:16
“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?”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Judges 21:16 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
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?
American Standard Version (ASV)English
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?
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Und die Ältesten der Gemeinde sprachen: Was sollen wir den Übriggebliebenen tun betreffs der Weiber? Denn die Weiber sind aus Benjamin vertilgt.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Entonces los ancianos de la congregación dijeron: ¿Qué haremos acerca de mujeres para los que han quedado? Porque el sexo de las mujeres había sido raído de Benjamín.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
Então os anciãos da congregação disseram: Que faremos acerca de mulheres para os que restaram? Porque as mulheres tinham sido exterminadas de Benjamim.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
Então os líderes da assembleia disseram: "Como nós arranjaremos esposas para os benjamitas que restaram, já que as mulheres de Benjamim foram mortas?".
📖 Judges 21:16 in Context
14And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh–gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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?
17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
18Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
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