Catholic Public Domain Version

Judges 21:1-4 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. The sons of Israel had also taken an oath at Mizpah, and they said, "None of us shall give his daughters as a wife to the sons of Benjamin."

2. And they all went to the house of God at Shiloh. And sitting in his sight until evening, they lifted up their voice, and they began to weep, with a great wailing, saying,

3. "Why, O Lord, God of Israel, has this evil happened among your people, so that this day one tribe would be taken away from us?"

4. Then, rising at first light on the next day, they built an altar. And they offered holocausts and victims of peace offerings there, and they said,