Parallel Bible results for "judges 21:17-18"

Judges 21:17-18

17 They said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be blotted out from Israel.

17 The Benjamite survivors must have heirs,” they said, “so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

18 "But we cannot give them wives of our daughters." For the sons of Israel had sworn, saying, "Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin."

18 We can’t give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.’