Judges 21:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And the ancients said: What shall we do with the rest, that have not received wives? for all the women in Benjamin are dead.

¹⁷ And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

¹⁸ For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound with an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give Benjamin any of his daughters to wife.