这样，耶和华将从前向他们列祖起誓所应许的全地赐给以色列人，他们就得了为业，住在其中。
And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
耶和华应许赐福给以色列家的话一句也没有落空，都应验了。
There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
说，耶和华以色列的神阿，为何以色列中有这样缺了一支派的事呢。
And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
以色列人彼此问说，以色列各支派中，谁没有同会众上到耶和华面前来呢。先是以色列人起过大誓说，凡不上米斯巴到耶和华面前来的，必将他治死。
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
以色列人为他们的弟兄便雅悯后悔，说，如今以色列中绝了一个支派了。
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
所当行的就是这样，要将一切男子和已嫁的女子尽行杀戮。
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
当时便雅悯人回来了，以色列人就把所存活基列雅比的女子给他们为妻，还是不够。
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
百姓为便雅悯人后悔，因为耶和华使以色列人缺了一个支派（原文作使以色列中有了破口）。
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
会中的长老说，便雅悯中的女子既然除灭了，我们当怎样办理，使那馀剩的人有妻呢。
Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
又说，便雅悯逃脱的人当有地业，免得以色列中涂抹了一个支派。
And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.