6And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, |One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.


In Context

3 And they said, |O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|

4 And on the morrow the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

5 And the people of Israel said, |Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?| For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, |He shall be put to death.|

6 And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, |One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.

7 What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?|

8 And they said, |What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?| And behold, no one had come to the camp from Ja'besh-gil'ead, to the assembly.

Judges 21:6 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:6Now the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites. "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel," they said.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:6The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, |There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:6And the sons of Israel repent concerning Benjamin their brother, and say, 'There hath been to-day cut off one tribe from Israel,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.