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Israelites: What tribe, of all of the tribes of Israel, did not come up to the assembly of the Eternal at Mizpah?

For they had also taken a solemn oath that whoever did not come before the Eternal at Mizpah would be put to death.

The people of Israel were moved with pity toward their kin, the tribe of Benjamin.

Israelites: Look, one tribe of Israel has been cut off from the rest of us. How can the survivors of Benjamin get wives, since we have all sworn by the Eternal not to give them our daughters?

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Then the Israelites asked, “Who from all the tribes of Israel(A) 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 was to be put to death.

Now the Israelites grieved for the tribe of Benjamin, their fellow Israelites. “Today one tribe is cut off from Israel,” they said. “How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath(B) by the Lord not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?”

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