11. This is what you will do: You will kill every man and every woman who has slept with a man.”
12. So among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
13. Then the whole assembly sent someone to speak to the Benjamites who were at Rimmon Rock, and they declared peace.
14. So the Benjamites returned at that time, and they gave to them the women who were still alive from among the women of Jabesh Gilead. Yet they did not find enough for them.
15. The people felt sorry for Benjamin, for the Lord had made a gap among the tribes of Israel.
16. The elders of the assembly said, “What can we do to find wives for those who are left? The Benjamite women were destroyed.”
17. They said, “There must be an inheritance for the remnant of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.
18. Yet we cannot give them our daughters for wives, for the children of Israel swore, ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”