Judges 21:22

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when their fathers and brothers arrive, and they begin to complain against you and to argue, we will say to them: 'Take pity on them. For they have not seized them by right of war or conquest. Instead, begging to receive them, you did not give them, and so the sin was on your part.' "

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

Genesis 7:13

On the very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark.

Proverbs 20:25

It is ruin for a man to devour what is holy, or, after making vows, to retract them.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Judges 21:1

The sons of Israel had also taken an oath at Mizpah, and they said, "None of us shall give his daughters as a wife to the sons of Benjamin."

Judges 21:14

And the sons of Benjamin went, at that time, and wives were given to them from the daughters of Jabesh-Gilead. But others were not found, whom they might give in a similar manner.

Judges 21:18

As for our own daughters, we are not able to give them, being bound by an oath and a curse, when we said, 'Accursed is he who will give any of his daughters to Benjamin as a wife.' "

Judges 21:7

From where shall they receive wives? For we have all sworn in common that we will not give our daughters to them."