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But the Israelites[a] had compassion for Benjamin, their relatives,[b] and they said, “Today one tribe is cut off from Israel. What will we do for them—for the ones being left over—for wives? For we have sworn by Yahweh not to give to them our daughters as wives.”

They asked, “Which one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?” And behold, no one came from Jabesh-gilead to the camp, to the assembly.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:6 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Judges 21:6 Hebrew “his brother”