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The next day, the people rose early and built an altar, and they made sacrifices and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Israelites: What tribe, of all of the tribes of Israel, did not come up to the assembly of the Eternal at Mizpah?

For they had also taken a solemn oath that whoever did not come before the Eternal at Mizpah would be put to death.

The people of Israel were moved with pity toward their kin, the tribe of Benjamin.

Israelites: Look, one tribe of Israel has been cut off from the rest of us.

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Early the next day the people built an altar and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.(A)

Then the Israelites asked, “Who from all the tribes of Israel(B) has failed to assemble before the Lord?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to assemble before the Lord at Mizpah was to be put to death.

Now the Israelites grieved for the tribe of Benjamin, their fellow Israelites. “Today one tribe is cut off from Israel,” they said.

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