Judges 21:18 - Tree of Life Version

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!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But we cannot give them wives of our daughters, for the Israelites have sworn, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for we Israelites have made this pledge: ‘Let anyone who provides a wife for Benjamin be cursed!’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ As for our own daughters, we are not able to give them, being bound by an oath and a curse, when we said, 'Accursed is he who will give any of his daughters to Benjamin as a wife.' "

Judges 21:18 Tagairtí Cros

Judges 11:35

Upon seeing her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You made me bow down in grief—you’ve made me miserable! For I have opened my mouth to Adonai, and I cannot take it back.”

Judges 21:1

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin in marriage.”

Judges 21:17

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

Judges 21:22

So it will be, if their fathers or brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously for us, because we did not provide each one of them his wife in battle—nor did you give the girls to them, else you would now be guilty.’”