English Bible Presentation Sharing - Judges Book, chapter 21, verse 35 in Ylt Version

Judges 21 : 1 (YLT)

And the men of Israel have sworn in Mizpeh, saying, `None of us doth give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.`

Judges 21 : 2 (YLT)

And the people come in to Beth-El, and sit there till the evening before God, and lift up their voice, and weep -- a great weeping,

Judges 21 : 3 (YLT)

and say, `Why, O Jehovah, God of Israel, hath this been in Israel -- to be lacking to-day, from Israel, one tribe?`

Judges 21 : 4 (YLT)

And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that the people rise early, and build there an altar, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

Judges 21 : 5 (YLT)

And the sons of Israel say, `Who *is he that hath not come up in the assembly out of all the tribes of Israel unto Jehovah?` for the great oath hath been concerning him who hath not come up unto Jehovah to Mizpeh, saying, `He is surely put to death.`

Judges 21 : 6 (YLT)

And the sons of Israel repent concerning Benjamin their brother, and say, `There hath been to-day cut off one tribe from Israel,

Judges 21 : 7 (YLT)

what do we do for them -- for those who are left -- for wives, and we -- we have sworn by Jehovah not to give to them of our daughters for wives?`

Judges 21 : 8 (YLT)

And they say, `Who is *that one out of the tribes of Israel who hath not come up unto Jehovah to Mizpeh?` and lo, none hath come in unto the camp from Jabesh-Gilead -- unto the assembly.

Judges 21 : 9 (YLT)

And the people numbered themselves, and lo, there is not there a man of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.

Judges 21 : 10 (YLT)

And the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, `Go -- and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

Judges 21 : 11 (YLT)

And this *is the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.`

Judges 21 : 12 (YLT)

And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which *is in the land of Canaan.

Judges 21 : 13 (YLT)

And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who *are in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;

Judges 21 : 14 (YLT)

and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for *all of them so.

Judges 21 : 15 (YLT)

And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 21 : 16 (YLT)

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?`

Judges 21 : 17 (YLT)

And they say, `A possession of an escaped party *is to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;

Judges 21 : 18 (YLT)

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.`

Judges 21 : 19 (YLT)

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.`

Judges 21 : 20 (YLT)

And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, `Go -- and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,

Judges 21 : 21 (YLT)

and have seen, and lo, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances -- then ye have gone out from the vineyards, and caught for you each his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh, and gone to the land of Benjamin;

Judges 21 : 22 (YLT)

and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us *by them, for we have not taken to each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time that ye are guilty.`

Judges 21 : 23 (YLT)

And the sons of Benjamin do so, and take women according to their number, out of the dancers whom they have taken violently away; and they go, and turn back unto their inheritance, and build the cities, and dwell in them.

Judges 21 : 24 (YLT)

And the sons of Israel go up and down thence at that time, each to his tribe, and to his family; and they go out thence each to his inheritance.

Judges 21 : 25 (YLT)

In those days there is no king in Israel; each doth that which is right in his own eyes.