And the children of Israel [a]were sorry for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

How shall we do for wives to them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the Lord, that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Also they said, is there any of the tribes of Israel that [b]came not up to Mizpah to the Lord? and behold, there came none of Jabesh Gilead unto the host, and to the Congregation.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:6 Or, repented that they had destroyed their brethren, as appeareth verse 15.
  2. Judges 21:8 Condemning them to be favors of vice, which would not put their hand to punish it.

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