Judges 21:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And they said, There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe shall not be wiped out of Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ There must be a surviving line for those who remain from Benjamin,” they continued, “so that a tribe won’t be erased from Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ and we must take great care, and make provision with a very great diligence, so that one tribe may not be wiped away from Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

Judges 21:17 Krydshenvisninger

Numbers 26:55

But the land shall be apportioned by lot; according to the names of their ancestral tribes they shall inherit.

Numbers 36:7

so that no inheritance of the Israelites shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for all Israelites shall retain the inheritance of their ancestral tribes.

Judges 21:16

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?”

Judges 21:18

Yet we cannot give any of our daughters to them as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.”