An Inheritance for the Survivors So No Tribe Be Blotted Out

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 76:6

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"And they said: There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out of Israel" (Judges 21:17). Rabbi Yitzchak the son of Rav Ammi said: This teaches that they made a condition with the tribe of Benjamin that a granddaughter [the daughter of a son] should not inherit together with the brothers [of her deceased father, so that tribal lands would remain within Benjamin].

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