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every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who [are] in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for [all of] them so. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the elders of the company say, ‘What do we do to the remnant for wives — for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And they say, ‘A possession of an escaped party [is] to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and we — we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [is] he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they say, ‘Lo, a festival of Jehovah [is] in Shiloh, from time to time, which [is] on the north of Beth-El, at the rising of the sun, by the highway which is going up from Beth-El to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, ‘Go — and ye have laid wait in the vineyards, <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances — then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin; <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us [by] them, for we have not taken [to] each his wife in battle, for ye — ye have not given to them at this time [that] ye are guilty.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin do so, and take women according to their number, out of the dancers whom they have taken violently away; and they go, and turn back unto their inheritance, and build the cities, and dwell in them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel go up and down thence at that time, each to his tribe, and to his family; and they go out thence each to his inheritance.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In those days there is no king in Israel; each doth that which is right in his own eyes. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../judges/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ruth/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ruth 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ruth 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/judges/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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