Judges 21:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then if their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Be generous and allow us to have them, because we did not capture in battle a wife for each man. But neither did you incur guilt by giving your daughters to them.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God created humans in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Genesis 7:13

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

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare for one to say rashly, “It is holy,” and begin to reflect only after making a vow.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Judges 21:1

Now the Israelites had sworn at Mizpah, “No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.”

Judges 21:14

Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they did not suffice for them.

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.”

Judges 21:7

What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters as wives?”