Then the elders of the congregation said.... This being the case, that there were not wives enough for them, they were obliged to consult again, and consider of another expedient to provide for them; and this motion came from the elders of the people, not only in years, but in office:how shall we do for wives for them that remain: the other two hundred, who had none:seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
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Judges 21:16
Judges 21:16
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