Judges 21:22-24

Modern English Version

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.