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Judges 21:16-18
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Judges 21:16-18
New English Translation
16 The leaders[a] of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left?[b] After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out. 17 The[c] remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.[d] 18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them,[e] for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed.’[f]
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- Judges 21:16 tn Or “elders.”
- Judges 21:16 tn Heb “What should we do for the remaining ones concerning wives?”
- Judges 21:17 tn The Hebrew text has “and they said” at the beginning of the verse. For stylistic reasons the translation treats v. 17 as a continuation of the remarks of the leaders in v. 16.
- Judges 21:17 tn Heb “An inheritance for the remnant belonging to Benjamin, and a tribe from Israel will not be wiped away.” The first statement lacks a verb. Some prefer to emend the text to read, “How can an inheritance remain for the remnant of Benjamin?”
- Judges 21:18 tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”
- Judges 21:18 tn Heb “is cursed.”
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