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- And the elders of the assembly said, "With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left?
- The Benjamite survivors must have heirs," they said, "so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.
- We can't give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: 'Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.'
- But look, there is the annual festival of the LORD in Shiloh, to the north of Bethel, and east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, and to the south of Lebonah."
- So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, "Go and hide in the vineyards
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