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Judges 21:6
And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.
Judges 21:6 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Judges 21:6 in other translations
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
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In context
3 O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?
4 And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:
5 Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the army of the Lord? for they had bound themselves with a great oath, when they were in Maspha, that whosoever were wanting should be slain.
6 And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.
7 Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn, not to give our daughters to them.
8 Therefore they said: Who is there of all the tribes of Israel, that came not up to the Lord to Maspha? And, behold, the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad were found not to have been in that army.
9 (At that time also when they were in Silo, no one of them was found there,)
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