Judges 21:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
21 And when ye see that the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go into the land of Benjamin.
22 And [a]when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, we will say unto them, Have pity on them for our sakes, because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war, and because ye have not given unto them hitherto, ye have sinned.
23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives of them that danced according to their [b]number: which they took, and went away, and returned to their inheritance, and repaired the cities and dwelt in them.
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- Judges 21:22 Though they thought hereby to persuade men that they kept their oath, yet before God it was broken.
- Judges 21:23 Meaning, two hundred.
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