Catholic Public Domain Version
"From where shall they receive wives? For we have all sworn in common that we will not give our daughters to them.” "
— Judges 21:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“How 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?”
“How 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? ”
“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?"”
“How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.””
“Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn, not to give our daughters to them.”
“What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.”
“How 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?”
Then, rising at first light on the next day, they built an altar. And they offered holocausts and victims of peace offerings there, and they said,
“Who, out of all the tribes of Israel, did not ascend with the army of the Lord?” For they had bound themselves with a great oath, when they were at Mizpah, that whoever was not present would be slain.
And the sons of Israel, having been led to repentance over their brother Benjamin, began to say: “One tribe has been taken away from Israel.
From where shall they receive wives? For we have all sworn in common that we will not give our daughters to them.”
For this reason, they said, “Who is there, out of all the tribes of Israel, that did not ascend to the Lord at Mizpah?” And behold, the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead were found not to have been among that army.
(Likewise, in the time when they had been at Shiloh, not one of them was found to be there.)
And so they sent ten thousand very robust men, and they instructed them, saying, “Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead with the edge of the sword, including their wives and little ones.”