Judges 21:5-7

21:5 The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed. ¹  21:6 The Israelites regretted what had happened to ²  their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire ³  tribe from Israel! 21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? ⁴  After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

¹ tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”

² tn Or “felt sorry for.”

³ tn Heb “cut off one.”

⁴ tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”