Judges 19 And it comes to pass, in those days, when there is no king in Israel, that there is a man a Levite, a sojourner in the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he takes to him a wife, a concubine, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah;"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it comes to pass, in those days, when there is no king in Israel, that there is a man a Levite, a sojourner in the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he takes to him a wife, a concubine, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah;" ² and commit whoredom against him does his concubine, and she goes from him unto the house of her father, unto Beth-Lehem-Judah, and is there days--four months. ³ And her husband rises and goes after her, to speak unto her heart, to bring her back, and his young man [is] with him, and a couple of asses; and she brings him into the house of her father, and the father of the young woman sees him, and rejoices to meet him. ⁴ And keep hold on him does his father-in-law, father of the young woman, and he abides with him three days, and they eat and drink, and lodge there. ⁵ And it comes to pass, on the fourth day, that they rise early in the morning, and he rises to go, and the father of the young woman said unto his son-in-law, `Support your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you go on.. ⁶ And they sit and eat both of them together, and drink, and the father of the young woman said unto the man, `Be willing, I pray you, and lodge all night, and let your heart be glad.. ⁷ And the man rises to go, and his father-in-law presses on him, and he turns back and lodges there. ⁸ And he rises early in the morning, on the fifth day, to go, and the father of the young woman said, `Support, I pray you, your heart;' and they have tarried till the turning of the day, and they eat, both of them. ⁹ And the man rises to go, he and his concubine, and his young man, and his father-in-law, father of the young woman, said to him, `Lo, I pray you, the day has fallen toward evening, lodge all night, I pray you; lo, the declining of the day! lodge here, and let your heart be glad--and you have risen early to-morrow for your journey, and you have gone to your tent.. ¹⁰ And the man has not been willing to lodge all night, and he rises, and goes, and comes in till over-against Jebus (It [is] Jerusalem), and with him [are] a couple of asses saddled; and his concubine [is] with him. ¹¹ They [are] near Jebus, and the day has gone greatly down, and the young man said unto his lord, `Come, I pray you, and we turn aside unto this city of the Jebusite, and lodge in it.. ¹² And his lord said unto him, `Let us not turn aside unto the city of a stranger, that is not of the sons of Israel, thither, but we have passed over unto Gibeah.. ¹³ And he said to his young man, `Come, and we draw near to one of the places, and have lodged in Gibeah, or in Ramah.. ¹⁴ And they pass over, and go on, and the sun goes in upon them near Gibeah, which is to Benjamin;" ¹⁵ and they turn aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah, and he goes in and sits in a broad place of the city, and there is no man gathering them into the house to lodge. ¹⁶ And lo, a man, an aged one, has come from his work from the field in the evening, and the man [is] of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he [is] a sojourner in Gibeah, and the men of the place [are] Benjamites. ¹⁷ And he lifts up his eyes, and sees the man, the traveller, in a broad place of the city, and the aged man said, `Whither go you? and whence come you?. ¹⁸ And he said unto him, `We are passing over from Beth-Lehem-Judah unto the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim--thence I [am], and I go unto Beth-Lehem-Judah; and to the house of Yahweh I am going, and there is no man gathering me into the house, ¹⁹ and both straw and provender are for our asses, and also bread and wine there are for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything.. ²⁰ And the old man said, `Peace to you; only, all your lack [is] on me, only in the broad place lodge not.. ²¹ And he brings him in to his house, and mixes [food] for the asses, and they wash their feet, and eat and drink. ²² They are making their heart glad, and lo, men of the city, men--sons of worthlessness--have gone round about the house, beating on the door, and they speak unto the old man, the master of the house, saying, `Bring out the man who has come unto your house, and we know him.. ²³ And the man, the master of the house, goes out unto them, and said unto them, `Nay, my brethren, do not evil, I pray you, after that this man has come in unto my house, do not this folly;" ²⁴ lo, my daughter, the virgin, and his concubine, let me bring them out, I pray you, and humble you them, and do to them that which is good in your eyes, and to this man do not this foolish thing.. ²⁵ And the men have not been willing to hearken to him, and the man takes hold on his concubine, and brings [her] out unto them without, and they know her, and roll themselves upon her all the night, till the morning, and send her away in the ascending of the dawn;" ²⁶ and the woman comes in at the turning of the morning, and falls at the opening of the man's house, where her lord [is], till the light. ²⁷ And her lord rises in the morning, and opens the doors of the house, and goes out to go on his way, and lo, the woman, his concubine, is fallen at the opening of the house, and her hands [are] on the threshold, ²⁸ and he said unto her, `Rise, and we go;' and there is none answering, and he takes her on the ass, and the man rises and goes to his place, ²⁹ and comes in unto his house, and takes the knife, and lays hold on his concubine, and cuts her in pieces to her bones--into twelve pieces, and sends her into all the border of Israel. ³⁰ And it has come to pass, every one who sees has said, `There has not been--yea, there has not been seen like this, from the day of the coming up of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt till this day; set your [heart] upon it, take counsel, and speak..