Verse 20
Judges 21:20
English Revised Version
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And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
Original Language Text
hebrew
ו/יצו וַ/יְצַוּ֕וּ אֶת בְּנֵ֥י בִנְיָמִ֖ן לֵ/אמֹ֑ר לְכ֖וּ וַ/אֲרַבְתֶּ֥ם בַּ/כְּרָמִֽים
English Translation
And he commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards."
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Chapter 21 Context
1
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto...
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And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God (Elohim), and lifted up their voi...
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And they said, O LORD, the God (Elohim) of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there sh...
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4
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered...
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And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the...
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6
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cu...
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How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not gi...
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8
And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah? A...
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9
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there...
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10
And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying,...
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11
And this is the thing that ye shall do; ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that ha...
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12
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known...
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13
And the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmo...
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14
And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women which they had saved alive of the w...
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15
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of...
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16
Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the...
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17
And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be n...
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Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, C...
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19
And they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the nor...
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20
And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
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and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out o...
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And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unt...
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And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that da...
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And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, a...
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In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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