Judges 21:17

Tree of Life Version

They said “The survivors of Benjamin must have heirs, so that a tribe would not be blotted out from Israel.

Cross References

Numbers 26:55

Certainly the land is to be divided by lot. They will inherit it according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

Numbers 36:7

So no inheritance may be passed from tribe to tribe among Bnei-Yisrael—each one of Bnei-Yisrael will each keep the inheritance of the tribe of his ancestors.

Judges 21:16

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

Judges 21:18

Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters,” for Bnei-Yisrael had sworn saying, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin!”