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

¹⁸ However that be, we may not give them wives from our daughters; for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, ‘Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.’”

¹⁹ 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.”