Judges 21:17

English Standard Version 2016

And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

Cross References

Numbers 36:7

The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the people of Israel shall hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Numbers 26:55

But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

Judges 21:16

Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

Judges 21:18

Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”