Judges 21:16

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

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

And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.