Judges 21:21-23

International Standard Version

²¹ Watch when the unmarried women^[a] from Shiloh come out to participate in the dances. Then come out of the vineyards and each of you grab a wife from the unmarried women^[b] from Shiloh. Then go back home to the territory of Benjamin. ²² If their fathers or brothers come complaining to us, we’ll tell them ‘Be generous! Give them to us voluntarily, because we didn’t take anyone to be a wife for the men of the tribe of Benjamin^[c] as a result of the battle. And you haven’t incurred guilt by giving your daughters to them.’”

²³ So the descendants of Benjamin did all of this: they chose and carried away just enough wives from those who danced to meet the number needed, then they left to return to their inheritance, to rebuild their cities, and to live there.