OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 21:17

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They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

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Verse 17. And we, and so forth Hebrew “and they said: an inheritance for those Benjamites who have escaped, that a tribe,” and so forth They wished to repair the breach as fast as possible, so that each of the 600 may have a wife.

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