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 in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and lament my virginity, I and my companions.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.