Judges 21:22-24

International Standard Version

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^[a] 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. ²⁴ The Israelis left there at that time, each man to his tribe and family, and each of them went down from there to his territorial allotment.