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So I took her body and cut her into pieces and sent her throughout our land that is Israel’s inheritance so that everyone could know what an outrage the men of Gibeah have committed! So now, you people of Israel, I am looking to you for counsel. What should we do?

Not only is this act an outrage against the custom of hospitality in that day, but it is a gross violation of the life of another human being.

Israelites (standing together): We will not return to our tents, and we will not go home to our houses,

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I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel’s inheritance,(A) because they committed this lewd and outrageous act(B) in Israel. Now, all you Israelites, speak up and tell me what you have decided to do.(C)

All the men rose up together as one, saying, “None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house.

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