16 Therefore the Elders of the Congregation said, How shall we do for wives to the remnant? for the women of Benjamin are destroyed.

17 And they said, There must be [a]an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 21:17 Benjamin must be reserved to have the twelfth portion in the inheritance of Jacob.

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