Judges 21:22-24

Expanded Bible

²² ·If [or When] their fathers or brothers come to us and complain, we will say: ‘·Be kind to the men of Benjamin [or Do us a favor], because we did not get wives for Benjamin during the war. And you are not guilty [^Cof breaking your oath; v. 18] because you did not [^Cvoluntarily] give the women to the men from Benjamin.’”

²³ So that is what the ·Benjaminites [^Lsons/descendants of Benjamin] did. While the young women were dancing, each man caught one of them [^Laccording to their number], ·took her away, and married her [^Land carried her off]. Then they went back to ·the land God had given them [their inheritance] and rebuilt their cities and lived there.

²⁴ Then the ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] went home to their own tribes and ·family groups [clans], to their own ·land that God had given them [inheritance].