Judges 21:22-24

New Catholic Bible

²² When their fathers and their brothers complain to us, we will say, ‘Please do us this favor, for we did not take a wife for each of them during the war. You are not guilty, for you did not really give your women to them.’ ”

²³ This is what the Benjaminites did. Each man took a wife for himself from among the young women who were dancing. They then went and returned to their inheritance, rebuilding the cities and dwelling in them. ²⁴ The Israelites then left that place and each man went to his own tribe, his own clan. Each man returned to his own inheritance.