021:015 The people grieved for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made
a breach in the tribes of Israel.
021:016 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for
wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed
out of Benjamin?
021:017 They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped
of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
021:018 However we may not give them wives of our daughters,
for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be
he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
021:019 They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year
in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east
side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem,
and on the south of Lebonah.
021:020 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie
in wait in the vineyards,
021:021 and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out
to dance in the dances, then come you out of the vineyards,
and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh,
and go to the land of Benjamin.
021:022 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain
to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us,
because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle,
neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
021:023 The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to
their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off:
and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built
the cities, and lived in them.
021:024 The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man
to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there
every man to his inheritance.
021:025 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did
that which was right in his own eyes.