¹⁴ However, he would not heed her voice; and being stronger than she, he ^(A)forced her and lay with her.

¹¹ Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will ^(A)take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

⁸ When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across ^(A)the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?”

As the word left the king’s mouth, they ^(B)covered Haman’s face.

^5 (A)And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me, ^(B)but instead they ravished my concubine so that she died.

²⁵ “But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. ²⁶ But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. ²⁷ For he found her in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.