Some have criticized the Book of Mormon because a similar kidnapping story can be found in Judges. After a desolation which killed many Benjamite women, there were not enough women for the men. The indiscriminate elders of Israel instructed them as follows, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin (Judges 21:20-21). The elders of Israel had effectively reduced courtship into a footrace in which the man gets the bride who can't outrun him. The similarity between the stories ends here. The situations are actually quite different and the argument that the Book of Mormon is a plagiarism is again unfounded.
"Bride capture is, in fact, an old idea and was found throughout much of the ancient world, not just in Israel. The fact that two different Israelite groups practiced it on a one-time basis is not at all unexpected, particularly if the priests of Noah were acquainted with the story from Judges 19-21." (FARMS Review of books, vol. 4, p. 226)