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24 Look! Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Now I will bring them out, and you may abuse them and do to them whatever you see fit. But do not do this disgraceful, foolish thing to this man.”

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.

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Footnotes

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