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Judges 21:16-18
English Standard Version
Judges 21:16-18
English Standard Version
16 Then the elders of the congregation said, (A)“What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?” 17 And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. 18 Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” (B)For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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