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New Etext of Bible eBook

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07:021:013 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children
           of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call
           peaceably unto them.

07:021:014 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives
           which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead:  and
           yet so they sufficed them not.

07:021:015 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
           lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

07:021:016 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for
           wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out
           of Benjamin?

07:021:017 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be
           escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of
           Israel.

07:021:018 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters:  for the
           children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that
           giveth a wife to Benjamin.

07:021:019 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the lord in Shiloh
           yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the
           east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem,
           and on the south of Lebonah.

07:021:020 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go
           and lie in wait in the vineyards;

07:021:021 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to
           dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch
           you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to
           the land of Benjamin.

07:021:022 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come
           unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be 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.

07:021:023 And the children of Benjamin 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.

07:021:024 And the children of Israel 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.

07:021:025 In those days there was no king in Israel:  every man did that
           which was right in his own eyes.

Book 08 Ruth

08:001:001 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that
           there was a famine in the land.  And a certain man of
           Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and
           his wife, and his two sons.

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