22 And should their fathers or their brothers come to make a complaint against us, we will then tell them, ‘Show us favor for their sakes, because we could not provide each one a wife by war+ and you could not give a wife to them without becoming guilty.’”+

22 And it must occur that should their fathers or their brothers come to conduct a legal case against us,* we* also shall certainly say to them, ‘Do us a favor for their sakes, because we have not taken for each one his wife by war,+ for it was not YOU that did the giving to them at a time when YOU* would become guilty.’”+

22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto 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, else would ye now be guilty.

22** And when their fathers or brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them “Let them off as a favor to us, because we did not take a wife apiece by fighting, for you did not give to them, then you would have been liable.”