Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Judges 21:17:

• Kupsabiny: “Then those people again said, ‘There should be people/men among the people of the house/family of Benjamin who can make the line of this house of Israel continue.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “They said — "Work must be done to save the heirs of Benjaminites survivors. Otherwise, a tribe will be lost from among the Israelites."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “They must have descendants so-that the tribe of Benjamin will- not -vanish.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “These men must have wives to give birth to children, in order that their families will continue. If that does not happen, all the people of one of the tribes of Israel will die.” (Source: Translation for Translators)