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Judges 21:13-15
New English Translation
Judges 21:13-15
New English Translation
13 The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.[a] 14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites[b] gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.[c]
15 The people regretted what had happened to[d] Benjamin because the Lord had weakened[e] the Israelite tribes.
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- Judges 21:13 tn Heb “And all the assembly sent and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the cliff of Rimmon and they proclaimed to them peace.”
- Judges 21:14 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Judges 21:14 tn Heb “but they did not find for them enough.”
- Judges 21:15 tn Or “felt sorry for.”
- Judges 21:15 tn Heb “had made a gaping hole in.” The narrator uses imagery that compares Israel to a wall that has been breached.
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