Verse 18
Judges 21:18
Darby Translation
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But we cannot give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to the Benjaminites!
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/אֲנַ֗חְנוּ לֹ֥א נוּכַ֛ל לָ/תֵת לָ/הֶ֥ם נָשִׁ֖ים מִ/בְּנוֹתֵ֑י/נוּ כִּֽי נִשְׁבְּע֤וּ בְנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר אָר֕וּר נֹתֵ֥ן אִשָּׁ֖ה לְ/בִנְיָמִֽן
English Translation
And we cannot give them our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, "Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin."
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Chapter 21 Context
1
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to th...
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And the people came to Bethel, and abode there till even before God (Elohim), and lifted up their vo...
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and said, Jehovah, God (Elohim) of Israel, why is it come to pass in Israel, that there should be th...
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4
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered...
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5
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with t...
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6
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, To-day is one tribe e...
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What shall we do for wives for them that remain? since we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not giv...
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8
And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpah to Jehovah? And...
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9
for the people were numbered, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead there.
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10
And the assembly sent thither twelve thousand men of the most valiant and commanded them, saying, Go...
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11
And this is the thing which ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that h...
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12
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women that were virgins, wh...
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13
And the whole assembly sent to speak to the children of Benjamin that were at the cliff of Rimmon, a...
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14
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them the wives whom they had saved alive of the...
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15
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel...
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16
And the elders of the assembly said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women...
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17
And they said, There must be a possession for those of Benjamin that have escaped, that a tribe be n...
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18
But we cannot give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Curse...
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And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the nort...
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20
And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
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and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of th...
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And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain to us, that we will say to th...
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And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives, according to their number, of them that danced,...
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And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, a...
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25
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
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