╩─╟ 21:1 ╬OW THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL HAD SWORN IN ═IZPEH, SAYING, ╘HERE SHALL NOT ANY OF US GIVE HIS DAUGHTER UNTO ┬ENJAMIN TO WIFE.
╩─╟ 21:2 ┴ND THE PEOPLE CAME TO THE HOUSE OF ╟OD, AND ABODE THERE TILL EVEN BEFORE ╟OD, AND LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES, AND WEPT SORE;
╩─╟ 21:3 ┴ND SAID, ╧ ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, WHY IS THIS COME TO PASS IN ╔SRAEL, THAT THERE SHOULD BE TO DAY ONE TRIBE LACKING IN ╔SRAEL?
╩─╟ 21:4 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, THAT THE PEOPLE ROSE EARLY, AND BUILT THERE AN ALTAR, AND OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS.
╩─╟ 21:5 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL SAID, ╫HO IS THERE AMONG ALL THE TRIBES OF ╔SRAEL THAT CAME NOT UP WITH THE CONGREGATION UNTO THE ╠╧╥─? ╞OR THEY HAD MADE A GREAT OATH CONCERNING HIM THAT CAME NOT UP TO THE ╠╧╥─ TO ═IZPEH, SAYING, ╚E SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH.
╩─╟ 21:6 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL REPENTED THEM FOR ┬ENJAMIN THEIR BROTHER, AND SAID, ╘HERE IS ONE TRIBE CUT OFF FROM ╔SRAEL THIS DAY.
╩─╟ 21:7 ╚OW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM THAT REMAIN, SEEING WE HAVE SWORN BY THE ╠╧╥─ THAT WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM OF OUR DAUGHTERS TO WIVES?
╩─╟ 21:8 ┴ND THEY SAID, ╫HAT ONE IS THERE OF THE TRIBES OF ╔SRAEL THAT CAME NOT UP TO ═IZPEH TO THE ╠╧╥─? ┴ND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME NONE TO THE CAMP FROM ╩ABESHGILEAD TO THE ASSEMBLY.
╩─╟ 21:9 ╞OR THE PEOPLE WERE NUMBERED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WERE NONE OF THE INHABITANTS OF ╩ABESHGILEAD THERE.
╩─╟ 21:10 ┴ND THE CONGREGATION SENT THITHER TWELVE THOUSAND MEN OF THE VALIANTEST, AND COMMANDED THEM, SAYING, ╟O AND SMITE THE INHABITANTS OF ╩ABESHGILEAD WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, WITH THE WOMEN AND THE CHILDREN.
╩─╟ 21:11 ┴ND THIS IS THE THING THAT YE SHALL DO, ┘E SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY EVERY MALE, AND EVERY WOMAN THAT HATH LAIN BY MAN.
╩─╟ 21:12 ┴ND THEY FOUND AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF ╩ABESHGILEAD FOUR HUNDRED YOUNG VIRGINS, THAT HAD KNOWN NO MAN BY LYING WITH ANY MALE: AND THEY BROUGHT THEM UNTO THE CAMP TO ╙HILOH, WHICH IS IN THE LAND OF ├ANAAN.
╩─╟ 21:13 ┴ND THE WHOLE CONGREGATION SENT SOME TO SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ┬ENJAMIN THAT WERE IN THE ROCK ╥IMMON, AND TO CALL PEACEABLY UNTO THEM.
╩─╟ 21:14 ┴ND ┬ENJAMIN CAME AGAIN AT THAT TIME; AND THEY GAVE THEM WIVES WHICH THEY HAD SAVED ALIVE OF THE WOMEN OF ╩ABESHGILEAD: AND YET SO THEY SUFFICED THEM NOT.
╩─╟ 21:15 ┴ND THE PEOPLE REPENTED THEM FOR ┬ENJAMIN, BECAUSE THAT THE ╠╧╥─ HAD MADE A BREACH IN THE TRIBES OF ╔SRAEL.
╩─╟ 21:16 ╘HEN THE ELDERS OF THE CONGREGATION SAID, ╚OW SHALL WE DO FOR WIVES FOR THEM THAT REMAIN, SEEING THE WOMEN ARE DESTROYED OUT OF ┬ENJAMIN?
╩─╟ 21:17 ┴ND THEY SAID, ╘HERE MUST BE AN INHERITANCE FOR THEM THAT BE ESCAPED OF ┬ENJAMIN, THAT A TRIBE BE NOT DESTROYED OUT OF ╔SRAEL.
╩─╟ 21:18 ╚OWBEIT WE MAY NOT GIVE THEM WIVES OF OUR DAUGHTERS: FOR THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL HAVE SWORN, SAYING, ├URSED BE HE THAT GIVETH A WIFE TO ┬ENJAMIN.
╩─╟ 21:19 ╘HEN THEY SAID, ┬EHOLD, THERE IS A FEAST OF THE ╠╧╥─ IN ╙HILOH YEARLY IN A PLACE WHICH IS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ┬ETHEL, ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY THAT GOETH UP FROM ┬ETHEL TO ╙HECHEM, AND ON THE SOUTH OF ╠EBONAH.
╩─╟ 21:20 ╘HEREFORE THEY COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ┬ENJAMIN, SAYING, ╟O AND LIE IN WAIT IN THE VINEYARDS;
╩─╟ 21:21 ┴ND SEE, AND, BEHOLD, IF THE DAUGHTERS OF ╙HILOH COME OUT TO DANCE IN DANCES, THEN COME YE OUT OF THE VINEYARDS, AND CATCH YOU EVERY MAN HIS WIFE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ╙HILOH, AND GO TO THE LAND OF ┬ENJAMIN.
╩─╟ 21:22 ┴ND IT SHALL BE, WHEN THEIR FATHERS OR THEIR BRETHREN COME UNTO US TO COMPLAIN, THAT WE WILL SAY UNTO THEM, ┬E FAVOURABLE UNTO THEM FOR OUR SAKES: BECAUSE WE RESERVED NOT TO EACH MAN HIS WIFE IN THE WAR: FOR YE DID NOT GIVE UNTO THEM AT THIS TIME, THAT YE SHOULD BE GUILTY.
╩─╟ 21:23 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ┬ENJAMIN DID SO, AND TOOK THEM WIVES, ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMBER, OF THEM THAT DANCED, WHOM THEY CAUGHT: AND THEY WENT AND RETURNED UNTO THEIR INHERITANCE, AND REPAIRED THE CITIES, AND DWELT IN THEM.
╩─╟ 21:24 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL DEPARTED THENCE AT THAT TIME, EVERY MAN TO HIS TRIBE AND TO HIS FAMILY, AND THEY WENT OUT FROM THENCE EVERY MAN TO HIS INHERITANCE.
╩─╟ 21:25 ╔N THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ╔SRAEL: EVERY MAN DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES.
