15 So the people were sorry for Benjamin because Adonai had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
16 Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who are left, since the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?”
17 They said “The survivors of Benjamin must have heirs, so that a tribe would not be blotted out from Israel.
18 Yet we cannot give them wives of our daughters,” for Bnei-Yisrael had sworn saying, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin!”
19 So they said, “Behold, there is the feast of Adonai from year to year at Shiloh” (which is to the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and to the south of Lebonah).
20 So they commanded the children of Benjamin saying, “Go and hide in the vineyards,
21 and watch, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh should come out to join in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and let each of you catch his wife from among the daughters of Shiloh. Then go to the land of Benjamin.