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25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and put her out to them. They wantonly raped her and abused her all through the night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.

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19 They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

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Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel;
    there they have continued.
    Shall not war overtake them in Gibeah?(A)

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They have deeply corrupted themselves
    as in the days of Gibeah;
he will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.(A)

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They are all adulterers;
    they are like a heated oven
whose baker does not need to stir the fire
    from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.(A)
On the day of our king the officials
    became sick with the heat of wine;
    he stretched out his hand with mockers.(B)
For they are kindled[a] like an oven; their heart burns within them;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour their rulers.
All their kings have fallen;
    none of them calls upon me.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.6 Gk Syr: Heb brought near

How can I pardon you?
    Your children have forsaken me
    and have sworn by those who are no gods.
When I fed them to the full,
    they committed adultery
    and trooped to the houses of prostitutes.(A)
They were well-fed lusty stallions,
    each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.(B)

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Cain Murders Abel

Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain,[a] saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. 4.1 In Heb Cain resembles the word for produced