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,
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