¹⁸ We can’t give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath:^(A) ‘Cursed be anyone who gives^(B) a wife to a Benjamite.’

The Israelites Punish the Benjamites

20 Then all Israel^(A) from Dan to Beersheba^(B) and from the land of Gilead came together as one^(C) and assembled^(D) before the Lord in Mizpah.^(E)