Judges 21:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶ So the elders of the congregation asked, “What will we do to obtain wives for the survivors, since the women of Benjamin have been devastated?” ¹⁷ They continued, “Let’s make sure that there’s an inheritance for the survivors of the tribe of Benjamin, so that a tribe won’t be blotted out from Israel. ¹⁸ But we can’t give them wives from our own daughters, since we’ve^[a] taken this vow: ‘May the Lord curse^[b] anyone who gives his daughter as^[c] a wife to the tribe of Benjamin!’”