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


In Context

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.|

19 So they said, |Behold, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebo'nah.|

Judges 21:17 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:17The Benjamite survivors must have heirs," they said, "so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that have escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17They said, |There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:17And they say, 'A possession of an escaped party is to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.