1The homies of Israel swore in Mizpeh, like, "No cap, we ain’t giving our daughters to Benjamin for wifey."

2The squad rolled up to God’s crib, chillin' till evening, crying like, "This is savage!"

3They were like, "Yo, Lord God of Israel, why we missing a tribe today? This is sus."

4The next day, the crew woke up early, built an altar, and popped off with burnt offerings and peace vibes.

5The Israelites were like, "Who didn’t roll up to the Lord at Mizpeh? We made a big oath that anyone who skipped is done for."

6The Israelites felt bad for their bro Benjamin, saying, "One tribe is totally cut off today."

7They asked, "How we gonna find wives for the ones left? We swore to the Lord no daughters for them."

8They were like, "Which tribe didn’t show up to Mizpeh? No one from Jabesh–gilead came through to the squad."

9The people were counted, and guess what? No one from Jabesh–gilead was there, fr.

10The crew sent 12,000 of the toughest dudes, telling them, "Go and take out the people of Jabesh–gilead, women and kids included."

11They were told, "You gotta wipe out every male and every woman who’s been with a dude."

12They found 400 young virgins in Jabesh–gilead who hadn’t been with anyone and brought them to the camp in Shiloh, which is in Canaan.

13The whole squad sent some to chat with the Benjamin crew chilling at Rimmon rock, trying to keep it peaceful.

14Benjamin showed up again, and they gave them the wives they saved from Jabesh–gilead, but it still wasn’t enough, fr.

15The people felt bad for Benjamin because the Lord had caused a rift in the tribes of Israel.

16Then the elders were like, "How we gonna find wives for the ones left? All the women in Benjamin are gone."

17They said, "We gotta make sure the ones who escaped have an inheritance, so a tribe doesn’t get wiped out."

18But we can’t give them our daughters for wives, since the Israelites swore, "Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin."

19Then they said, "Yo, there’s a yearly feast of the Lord in Shiloh, up north of Beth–el, east of the highway from Beth–el to Shechem, and south of Lebonah."

20So they told the Benjamin crew, "Go chill in the vineyards."

21And check it, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance, then you guys pop out of the vineyards and snag yourselves wives from them."

22And when their dads or bros come to complain, we’ll be like, "Cut them some slack for our sake, we didn’t hook them up with wives during the war, so don’t blame us."

23The Benjamin crew did just that, took wives from the dancers they caught, and went back to their land, fixing up their cities.

24The Israelites bounced from there, each homie heading back to their tribe and fam, claiming their inheritance.

25Back then, there was no king in Israel, so everyone just did what felt right to them.

1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

2And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

3And 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?

4And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

5And 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.

6And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

7How 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?

8And 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 Jabesh–gilead to the assembly.

9For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead there.

10And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

11And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead 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.

13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

14And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh–gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

15And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

16Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

17And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

18Howbeit 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.

19Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth–el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth–el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

21And 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.

22And 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.

23And 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.

24And 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.

25In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.