Judges 21
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Judges 21:19-22

19So they said, “Behold, there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in 1Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south side of Lebonah.”

20And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

21and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to 23take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards and each of you shall catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

22It shall come about, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we shall say to them, ‘Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin 4a wife in battle, 56nor did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”

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Notes

  1. 1. Judges 21:19 Josh 18:1; Judg 18:31; 1 Sam 1:3 ↩
  2. 2. Judges 21:21 Lit dance ↩
  3. 3. Judges 21:21 Ex 15:20; Judg 11:34 ↩
  4. 4. Judges 21:22 Lit his ↩
  5. 5. Judges 21:22 Lit because ↩
  6. 6. Judges 21:22 Judg 21:1, 18 ↩

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