The Israelites grieved for their brother Benjamin, saying, “Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.
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4The next day the people rose early, built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. 5Then the Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up to Yahweh at Mizpah would surely be put to death. 6The Israelites grieved for their brother Benjamin, saying, “Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel. 7What can we do to provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?” 8Then they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?” And they discovered that no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp, to the assembly.
