Judges 21:17

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And they said, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, in order that a tribe may not be blotted out from Israel.

Cross References

Numbers 26:55

But the land shall be apportioned by lot; according to the names of their ancestral tribes they shall inherit.

Numbers 36:7

so that no inheritance of the Israelites shall be transferred from one tribe to another; for all Israelites shall retain the inheritance of their ancestral tribes.

Judges 21:16

So the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since there are no women left in Benjamin?”

Judges 21:18

Yet we cannot give any of our daughters to them as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.”