11. This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”
12. And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
13. Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.
14. And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them.
15. And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16. Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
17. And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
18. Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”