Judges 21:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.”
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“And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh–gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for <FI>all of<Fi> them so.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 21:14 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 20:47But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
- Judges 21:12So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
- Judges 21:22When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
- 1 Corinthians 7:2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
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