7"How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"


In Context

4 Early the next day the people built an altar and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

5 Then the Israelites asked, "Who from all the tribes of Israel has failed to assemble before the LORD ?" For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah should certainly be put to death.

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

7 "How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"

8 Then they asked, "Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah?" They discovered that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

9 For when they counted the people, they found that none of the people of Jabesh Gilead were there.

Judges 21:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:7Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn, not to give our daughters to them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7What 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?|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD, that we will not give them of our daughters for wives?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7what do we do for them — for those who are left — for wives, and we — we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?