These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Judges 21
Tanakh 25 verses
- 1 Now the men of had sworn in Mizpah, saying: ‘There shall not any of us give his daughter unto to wife.’
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And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before , and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.
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And they said: ‘O , the of , why is this come to pass in , that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in ?’
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And it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose early, and built there an , and offered burnt-offerings and -offerings.
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And the children of said: ‘Who is there among all the tribes of that came not up in the unto ?’ For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto to Mizpah, saying: ‘He shall surely be put to death.’
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And the children of repented them for their brother, and said: ‘There is one tribe cut off from this day.
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How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?’
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And they said: ‘What one is there of the tribes of that came not up unto to Mizpah?’ And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the .
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- 9 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.
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And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying: ‘Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
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And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.’
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And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to , which is in the land of .
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And the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed unto them.
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And returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead; and yet so they sufficed them not.
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And the people repented them for , because that had made a breach in the tribes of .
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- 16 Then the elders of the congregation said: ‘How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of ?’
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And they said: ‘They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for , that a tribe be not blotted out from .
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Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters.’ For the children of had sworn, saying: ‘Cursed be he that giveth a wife to .’
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- 19 And they said: ‘Behold, there is the feast of from year to year in , which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to , and on the south of Lebonah.’
- 20 And they commanded the children of , saying: ‘Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
- 21 and see, and, behold, if the daughters of come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of , and go to the land of .
- 22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to strive with us, that we will say unto them: Grant them graciously unto us; because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle; neither did ye give them unto them, that ye should now be guilty.’
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And the children of did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off; and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.
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- 24 And the children of departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
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In those days there was no in ; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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