²¹ and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing,^(A) rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin.

²³ So that is what the Benjamites did. While the young women were dancing,^(A) each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance^(B) and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.^(C)

⁶ When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing,^(A) with joyful songs and with timbrels^(B) and lyres.