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A Tribe Is Cut Off

21 Now the men of Israel (A)had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.” (B)So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening and lifted up their voices and wept [a]bitterly. And they said, “Why, O Yahweh, God of Israel, has this come about in Israel, so that one tribe should be missing today from Israel?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:2 Lit with great weeping