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


In Context

3 They said, |Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|

4 It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

5 The children of Israel said, |Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh?| For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, |He shall surely be put to death.|

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

7 How 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?|

8 They said, |What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?| Behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:6And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, |One tribe is 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 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.