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|Jueces 21:18|
We can’t give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: `Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.’
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|Jueces 21:19|
But look, there is the annual festival of the LORD in Shiloh, to the north of Bethel, and east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, and to the south of Lebonah.”
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|Jueces 21:20|
So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, “Go and hide in the vineyards
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|Jueces 21:21|
and watch. When the girls of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, then rush from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife from the girls of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin.
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|Jueces 21:22|
When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, `Do us a kindness by helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war, and you are innocent, since you did not give your daughters to them.’“
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|Jueces 21:23|
So that is what the Benjamites did. While the girls were dancing, each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.
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|Jueces 21:24|
At that time the Israelites left that place and went home to their tribes and clans, each to his own inheritance.
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|Jueces 21:25|
In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.
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