²⁸ “Come, let us go,” he said to her, but there was no answer. So the man placed her on a donkey and started out again for home.

^29 [a]On reaching home, he got a knife and took hold of the body of his concubine. He cut her up limb by limb into twelve pieces and sent them throughout the territory of Israel.^{(A) 30} He instructed the men whom he sent, “Thus you shall say to all the men of Israel: ‘Has such a thing ever happened from the day the Israelites came up from the land of Egypt to this day?^[b](B) Take note of it; form a plan and give orders.’”