24 Behold, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his concubine: them will I bring out now, [a]and humble them, and do with them what seemeth you good: but to this man do not this villainy.

25 But the men would not hearken to him: therefore the man took his concubine, and brought her out unto them: and they knew her and abused her all the night unto the morning and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

26 So the woman came in the dawning of the day, and [b]fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till the light day.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 19:24 That is, abuse them, as Gen. 19:8.
  2. Judges 19:26 She fell down dead, as verse 27.

24 Look, here is my virgin daughter,(A) and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”

25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her(B) and abused her(C) throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. 26 At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.

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