Judges 21:22
If their fathers or brothers come to you and protest, you can tell them: 'Please let us keep them, because we did not take them from you in battle to be our wives. Since you did not give them to us, you are not guilty of breaking your promise.'
Judges 21:1
The Israelites gathered at Mizpah. They made a solemn promise to Jehovah: None of us will allow a daughter to marry a Benjaminite.
Judges 21:18
We cannot allow them to marry our daughters. We have put a curse on anyone who allows a Benjaminite to marry one of our daughters.
Genesis 1:27
God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.
Genesis 7:13
Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
Judges 21:7
We have made a solemn promise to Jehovah that we will not give them any of our daughters. How can we make sure that the remaining men of Benjamin will have wives?
Judges 21:14
The Benjaminites came back. And the other Israelites gave them the young women from Jabesh whom they had not killed. But there were not enough of them.
Proverbs 20:25
It is dangerous to make a vow to God before counting the cost.
Mark 10:6-8
God made male and female from the beginning of creation.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.