Judges 21:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ And they commanded the children of Benjamin, and said: Go, and lie hid in the vineyards,

²¹ And when you shall see the daughters of Silo come out, as the custom is, to dance, come ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife among them, and go into the land of Benjamin.

²² And when their fathers and their brethren shall come, and shall begin to complain against you, and to chide, we will say to them: Have pity on them for they took them not away as by the right of war or conquest, but when they asked to have them, you gave them not, and the fault was committed on your part.