20So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, "Go and hide in the vineyards


In Context

17 The Benjamite survivors must have heirs," they said, "so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

18 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.'

19 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."

20 So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, "Go and hide in the vineyards

21 and watch. When the girls of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, then rush from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife from the girls of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin.

22 When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, 'Do us a kindness by helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war, and you are innocent, since you did not give your daughters to them.' "

Judges 21:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:20And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:20They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, |Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:20And they commanded the children of Benjamin, and said: Go, and lie hid in the vineyards,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:20And they commanded the Benjaminites, saying, |Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:20And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go, and lie in wait in the vineyards;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:20And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, 'Go — and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;