New American Standard Bible

Judges 21:11-16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

11. This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain with a man."

12. And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13. Then the whole congregation sent word and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

14. Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the women of Jabesh-gilead; yet they were not enough for them.

15. And the people were sorry for Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

16. Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"