Judges 21:22
"And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty."
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- Judges 21:1
"Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife."
Read in chapter → - Judges 21:18
"Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin."
Read in chapter → - Mark 10:6
"But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female."
Read in chapter → - Judges 21:7
"How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"
Read in chapter → - Philemon 1:9
"Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 1:27
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 7:13
"In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:25
"It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 7:2
"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
Read in chapter → - Judges 21:14
"And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not."
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