16Then the elders of the congregation said, |What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?|


In Context

13 Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

14 And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Ja'besh-gil'ead; but they did not suffice for them.

15 And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

16 Then the elders of the congregation said, |What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?|

17 And they said, |There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

18 Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters.| For the people of Israel had sworn, |Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.|

Judges 21:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:16And the elders of the assembly said, "With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left?

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:16And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have not received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, |How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:16And the elders of the company say, 'What do we do to the remnant for wives — for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?