The elders debate

16Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”

17And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe may not be blotted out from Israel.”

18But we cannot give them wives from our daughters, because the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is the one who gives a wife to Benjamin.’