019:019 Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys;
and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid,
and for the young man who is with your servants:
there is no want of anything.
019:020 The old man said, Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants
lie on me; only don't lodge in the street.
019:021 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder;
and they washed their feet, and ate and drink.
019:022 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of
the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about,
beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house,
the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came into your house,
that we may know him.
019:023 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said
to them, No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly;
seeing that this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.
019:024 Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine;
them I will bring out now, and humble you them, and do
with them what seems good to you: but to this man don't
do any such folly.
019:025 But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold
on his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they
knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning:
and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
019:026 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell
down at the door of the man's house where her lord was,
until it was light.
019:027 Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of
the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman
his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house,
with her hands on the threshold.
019:028 He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered:
then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up,
and got him to his place.
019:029 When he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on
his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces,
and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
019:030 It was so, that all who saw it said, There was no such deed
done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came
up out of the land of Egypt to this day: consider it,
take counsel, and speak.
020:001 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation
was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba,
with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
020:002 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel,
presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God,
four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
020:003 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel
had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, Tell us,
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