¹⁶ And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives -- for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'

¹⁷ And they say, `A possession of an escaped party [is] to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;

¹⁸ and we -- we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [is] he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.'