Judges 21:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ They said “The survivors of Benjamin must have heirs, so that a tribe would 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.

Judges 21:17 Tagairtí Cros

Numbers 26:55

Certainly the land is to be divided by lot. They will inherit it according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

Numbers 36:7

So no inheritance may be passed from tribe to tribe among Bnei-Yisrael—each one of Bnei-Yisrael will each keep the inheritance of the tribe of his ancestors.

Judges 21:16

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

Judges 21:18

Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters,” for Bnei-Yisrael had sworn saying, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin!”