Judges 21:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ Yet we cannot give any of our daughters to them as wives.’ For the Israelites had sworn, ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ¹⁹ So they said, ‘Look, the yearly festival of the Lord is taking place at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.’ ²⁰ And they instructed the Benjaminites, saying, ‘Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,