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Judges 21 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:1 - Now the children of Israel swore in Massephath, saying, No man of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:2 - And the people came to Bæthel, and sat there until evening before God: and they lifted up their voice and wept with a great weeping;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:3 - and said, Wherefore, O Lord God of Israel, has this come to pass, that to-day one tribe should be counted as missing from Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:4 - And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose up early, and built there an altar, and offered up whole-burnt-offerings and [fn]peace-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - And the children of Israel said, Who of all the tribes of Israel, went not up in the congregation to the Lord? for there was a great oath concerning those who went not up to the Lord to Massephath, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6 - And the children of Israel [fn]relented toward Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day one tribe is cut off from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:7 - What shall we do for wives for the rest that remain? whereas we have sworn by the Lord, not to give them of our daughters for wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8 - And they said, What one man is there of the tribes of Israel, who went not up to the Lord to Massephath? and, behold, no man came to the camp from Jabis Galaad to the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:9 - And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the [fn]strongest, and they charged them, saying, Go ye and smite the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad with the [fn]edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - And this shall ye do: every male and every woman that has known the lying with man ye shall devote to destruction, but the virgins ye shall save alive: and they did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:12 - And they found [fn]among the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to Selom in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - And all the congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin in the rock Remmon, and invited them to make peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the daughters of Jabis Galaad; and [fn]they were content.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:15 - And the people [fn]relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:16 - And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:17 - And they said, There must be an inheritance of them that are escaped of Benjamin; and so a tribe shall not be destroyed out of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18 - For we shall not be able to give them wives of our daughters, because we swore among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed is he that gives a wife to Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - And they said, Lo! now there is a feast of the Lord [fn]from year to year in Selom, which is on the north of Bæthel, eastward on the way that goes up from Bæthel to Sychem, and from the south of Lebona.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:20 - And they charged the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21 - and ye shall see; and lo! if there come out the daughters of the inhabitants of Selom to dance in dances, then shall ye go out of the vineyards and seize for yourselves every man a wife of the daughters of Selom, and go ye into the land of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - And it shall come to pass, when their fathers or their brethren come to dispute with us, that we will say to them, Grant them freely to us, for we have not taken every man his wife in the battle: because ye did not give to them [fn]according to the occasion, ye transgressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - And the children of Benjamin did so; and they took wives according to their number from the dancers whom they seized: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:24 - And the children of Israel [fn]went thence at that time every man to his tribe and his kindred; and they went thence every man to his inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:25 - And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own sight.
BES Footnotes
See chap 20:26.
Or, comforted themselves, or were comforted.
Gr. sons of strength.
Gr. mouth.
Gr. from, out of.
Gr. it pleased them thus.
Gr. See ver. 6.
Gr. from days to days. Hebraism.
Translated from Alex.
Gr. walked.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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