Judges 21:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ So the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since there are no women left in Benjamin?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women of Benjamin are destroyed?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ the community elders said, “What can we do to provide wives for the ones who are left, seeing that the Benjaminite women have been destroyed?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And those greater by birth said: "What shall we do with the remainder, those who have not received wives? For all the females of Benjamin have been cut down,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have not received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.

Judges 21:16 Krydshenvisninger

Judges 21:15

The people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Judges 21:17

And they said, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, in order that a tribe may not be blotted out from Israel.