Judges 21:17 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁷ The men of Benjamin that are still alive must have children to continue their families. This must be done so that a family group in Israel will not die out!

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Numbers 26:55

But you must use lots [319] to decide which family gets which part of the land. Each family group will get its share of the land. And that land will be given the name of that family group.

Numbers 36:7

In this way, land will not be passed from family group to family group among the people of Israel. Each Israelite will keep the land that belonged to his own ancestors. [394]

Judges 21:16

The elders (leaders) of the people of Israel said, “The women of the family group of Benjamin have been killed. Where can we get wives for the men of Benjamin that are still alive?

Judges 21:18

But we cannot allow our daughters to marry the men of Benjamin. We have made this promise: ‘Bad things will happen to anyone that gives a wife to a man of Benjamin.’