World English Bible
Judges 21:16
“Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
Verse in context — Judges 21
Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.
The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, 'Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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