13. And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who [are] in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;
14. and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for [all of] them so.
15. And the people repented concerning Benjamin, for Jehovah had made a breach among the tribes of Israel.
16. And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives--for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'
17. And they say, `A possession of an escaped party [is] to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;
18. and we--we are not able to give to them wives out of our daughters, for the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [is] he who is giving a wife to Benjamin.'