13. And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who [are] in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;
14. and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for [all of] them so.
15. And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.
16. And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives--for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'
17. And they say, `A possession of an escaped party [is] to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;
18. and we--we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [is] he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.'
19. And they say, `Lo, a festival of Jehovah [is] in Shiloh, from time to time, which [is] on the north of Beth-El, at the rising of the sun, by the highway which is going up from Beth-El to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.'
20. And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, `Go--and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,
21. and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances--then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin;
22. and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us [by] them, for we have not taken [to] each his wife in battle, for ye--ye have not given to them at this time [that] ye are guilty.'
23. And the sons of Benjamin do so, and take women according to their number, out of the dancers whom they have taken violently away; and they go, and turn back unto their inheritance, and build the cities, and dwell in them.