Judges 21:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?

⁴ And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:

⁵ Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the army of the Lord? for they had bound themselves with a great oath, when they were in Maspha, that whosoever were wanting should be slain.