Judges 21:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ And we must use all care, and provide with great diligence, that one tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

¹⁸ For as to our own daughters we cannot give them, being bound with an oath and a curse, whereby we said: Cursed be he that shall give Benjamin any of his daughters to wife.

¹⁹ So they took counsel, and said: Behold there is a yearly solemnity of the Lord in Silo, which is situate on the north of the city of Bethel, and on the east side of the way, that goeth from Bethel to Sichem, and on the south of the town of Lebona.