20. So they commanded the Benjamites, “Go and hide in the vineyards.
21. Watch, and then when the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, come out from the vineyards and have every man grab a wife for himself from among the daughters of Shiloh. Then go to the land of Benjamin.
22. When their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, ‘Be favorable to them for our sakes, because we did not take for each man a wife in the battle; for you have not given women to them at the time, thereby making yourselves guilty.’ ”
23. So the Benjamites did this. They carried away wives for each man from among the dancers that they caught. Then they returned to their inheritance, rebuilt the cities, and lived in them.
24. At that time, the children of Israel departed from there each man to his tribe and to his family. They went out from there to their own inheritance.
25. In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.