The elders note that they cannot give their own daughters as wives for the remaining Benjamites, given the curse, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
This form of the curse recalls Deuteronomy 27:15–16.1
The elders note that they cannot give their own daughters as wives for the remaining Benjamites, given the curse, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
This form of the curse recalls Deuteronomy 27:15–16.1
18 Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”