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Judges 21:20

They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

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Judges 21:20 in other translations

KJV King James Version

Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

BSB Berean Standard Bible

So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards

WEB World English Bible

They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

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17 They said, "There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

18 However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, 'Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.'"

19 They said, "Behold, there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah."

20 They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

21 and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

22 It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take wives for each man in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'"

23 The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

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