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iuraverunt quoque filii Israhel in Maspha et dixeruntnullus nostrum dabit filiis Beniamin de filiabus suis uxorem

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veneruntque omnes ad domum Dei in Silo et in conspectu eiussedentes usque ad vesperam levaverunt vocem et magno ululatucoeperunt flere dicentes

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quare Domine Deus Israhel factum est hoc malum in populotuo ut hodie una tribus auferretur ex nobis

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altera autem die diluculo consurgentes extruxerunt altareobtuleruntque ibi holocausta et pacificas victimas et dixerunt

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quis non ascendit in exercitu Domini de universis tribubusIsrahel grandi enim se iuramento constrinxerant cum essent inMaspha interfici eos qui defuissent

21:6
ductique paenitentia filii Israhel super fratre suoBeniamin coeperunt dicere ablata est una tribus de Israhel

21:7
unde uxores accipient omnes enim in commune iuravimus nondaturos nos his filias nostras

21:8
idcirco dixerunt quis est de universis tribubus Israhel quinon ascendit ad Dominum in Maspha et ecce inventi sunthabitatores Iabisgalaad in illo exercitu non fuisse

21:9
eo quoque tempore cum essent in Silo nullus ex eis ibireppertus est

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miserunt itaque decem milia viros robustissimos etpraeceperunt eis ite et percutite habitatores Iabisgalaad inore gladii tam uxores quam parvulos eorum

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et hoc erit quod observare debetis omne generis masculiniet mulieres quae cognoverunt viros interficite

21:12
inventaeque sunt de Iabisgalaad quadringentae virginesquae nescierunt viri torum et adduxerunt eas in castra in Siloin terra Chanaan

21:13
miseruntque nuntios ad filios Beniamin qui erant in petraRemmon et praeceperunt eis ut eos in pace susciperent

21:14
veneruntque filii Beniamin in illo tempore et datae sunteis uxores de filiabus Iabisgalaad alias autem non reppereruntquas simili modo traderent

21:15
universusque Israhel valde doluit et egit paenitudinemsuper interfectione unius tribus ex Israhel

21:16
dixeruntque maiores natu quid faciemus reliquis qui nonacceperunt uxores omnes in Beniamin feminae conciderunt

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et magna nobis cura ingentique studio providendum est neuna tribus deleatur ex Israhel

21:18
filias nostras eis dare non possumus constricti iuramentoet maledictione qua diximus maledictus qui dederit de filiabussuis uxorem Beniamin

21:19
ceperuntque consilium atque dixerunt ecce sollemnitasDomini est in Silo anniversaria quae sita est ad septentrionemurbis Bethel et ad orientalem plagam viae quae de Bethel tenditad Sycimam et ad meridiem oppidi Lebona

21:20
praeceperuntque filiis Beniamin atque dixerunt ite etlatete in vineis

21:21
cumque videritis filias Silo ad ducendos choros ex moreprocedere exite repente de vineis et rapite eas singuli uxoressingulas et pergite in terram Beniamin

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cumque venerint patres earum ac fratres et adversum vosqueri coeperint atque iurgari dicemus eis miseremini eorum nonenim rapuerunt eas iure bellantium atque victorum sedrogantibus ut acciperent non dedistis et a vestra partepeccatum est

21:23
feceruntque filii Beniamin ut sibi fuerat imperatum etiuxta numerum suum rapuerunt sibi de his quae ducebant chorosuxores singulas abieruntque in possessionem suam aedificantesurbes et habitantes in eis

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filii quoque Israhel reversi sunt per tribus et familiasin tabernacula sua in diebus illis non erat rex in Israhel sedunusquisque quod sibi rectum videbatur hoc faciebat

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021:001
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

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And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

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And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

021:005
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

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And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

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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 give them of our daughters to wives?

021:008
And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

021:009
For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.

021:010
And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

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And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

021:012
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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Therefore 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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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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