Thematic Bible: Not to be given in marriage was considered a calamity
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Women » Not to be given in marriage was considered a calamity
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.
And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.