Judges 21:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Numbers 26:55

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

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 cleave to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

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 of our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”