Judges 21:4
Good News Translation
Early the next morning the people got up and built an altar there. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole.

New Revised Standard Version
On the next day, the people got up early, and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being.

Contemporary English Version
Early the next morning, the Israelites built an altar and offered sacrifices to please the LORD and to ask his blessing.

New American Bible
Early the next day the people built an altar there and offered burnt offerings and communion offerings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:

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And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:

rose early

Psalm 78:34,35 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. . . .

Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

built there

Judges 6:26 And thou shalt build un altar to the Lord thy God, in the top of this rock, whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice before: and thou shalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon a pile of the wood, which thou shalt cut down out of the grove.

Exodus 20:24,25 You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee. . . .

2 Samuel 24:18,25 And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite. . . .

1 Kings 8:64 In that day the king sanctified the middle of the court, that was before the house of the Lord for there he offered the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the Lord, was too little to receive the holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.

Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.

Context
Wives for the Benjamites
3O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us? 4And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:5Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the army of the Lord? for they had bound themselves with a great oath, when they were in Maspha, that whosoever were wanting should be slain.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

Judges 21:3
O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?

1 Samuel 7:17
And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

2 Samuel 24:25
And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

Judges 21:3
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