Judges 21:16

Judges chapter 21 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Context

v.15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

v.16This passage

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