Judges 21:22
When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we'll say to them, "Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don't worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.'"
Judges 21:1
The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, "Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite."
Judges 21:18
But we can't allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying, 'Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!'
Genesis 1:27
God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
Genesis 7:13
On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.
Judges 21:7
How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the Lord's name not to give them our daughters as wives."
Judges 21:14
The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare for a person to rashly cry, "Holy!" and only afterward to consider what he has vowed.
Mark 10:6-8
But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.