Judges 21:21-23

Legacy Standard Bible

²¹ and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to ^[a](A)take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards, and each of you shall catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin. ²² And it will be when their fathers or their brothers come to contend with us, that we shall say to them, ‘Be gracious to us concerning them because we did not take for each man of Benjamin ^[b]a wife in the battle, ^[c](B)and you did not give your daughters to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’” ²³ And the sons of Benjamin did so and carried away wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they stole away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and ^(C)rebuilt the cities and lived in them.