Judges 21:17
Judges chapter 21 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
Context
v.16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
v.17This passage
v.18Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 36:7
So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
- Numbers 26:55
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.