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25 But the men were not willing to listen to him. So the Levite took hold of his concubine and forced her to go out to them. They were intimate with[a] her and mistreated her all night long until morning. Then they let her go at the break of dawn.

26 As morning was dawning, the woman came and collapsed at the entrance to the man’s house, where her husband had been staying until the light of day.

27 When her husband got up in the morning, he opened the doors of the house and went out in order to go on his way. There she was! His concubine had collapsed at the entrance of the house with her hands on the threshold.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 19:25 Though the vile nature of their actions is clear, the text uses a euphemism, know.