- 会中的长老说,便雅悯中的女子既然除灭了,我们当怎样办理,使那馀剩的人有妻呢。
- 又说,便雅悯逃脱的人当有地业,免得以色列中涂抹了一个支派。
- 只是我们不能将自己的女儿给他们为妻。因为以色列人曾起誓说,有将女儿给便雅悯人为妻的,必受咒诅。
- 他们又说,在利波拿以南,伯特利以北,在示剑大路以东的示罗,年年有耶和华的节期。
- 就吩咐便雅悯人说,你们去,在葡萄园中埋伏。
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- And the elders of the assembly said, "With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left?
- The Benjamite survivors must have heirs," they said, "so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.
- We can't give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: 'Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.'
- But look, there is the annual festival of the LORD in Shiloh, to the north of Bethel, and east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, and to the south of Lebonah."
- So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, "Go and hide in the vineyards
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