07:019:020 And the old man said, Peace be with thee;
howsoever let all
thy
wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
07:019:021 So he brought him into his house, and gave
provender unto the
asses:
and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
07:019:022 Now as they were making their hearts merry,
behold, the men of
the
city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round
about,
and
beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house,
the
old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into
thine
house,
that we may know him.
07:019:023 And the man, the master of the house, went
out unto them, and
said
unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not
so
wickedly;
seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not
this
folly.
07:019:024 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and
his concubine; them
I
will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with
them
what
seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not
so vile a
thing.
07:019:025 But the men would not hearken to him:
so the man took his
concubine,
and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her,
and
abused her all the night until the morning: and
when the
day
began to spring, they let her go.
07:019:026 Then came the woman in the dawning of the
day, and fell down
at
the door of the man’s house where her lord was,
till it was
light.
07:019:027 And her lord rose up in the morning, and
opened the doors of
the
house, and went out to go his way: and, behold,
the woman
his
concubine was fallen down at the door of the house,
and
her
hands were upon the threshold.
07:019:028 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be
going. But none
answered.
Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man
rose
up, and gat him unto his place.
07:019:029 And when he was come into his house, he
took a knife, and laid
hold
on his concubine, and divided her, together with her
bones,
into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts
of
Israel.
07:019:030 And it was so, that all that saw it said,
There was no such
deed
done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel
came
up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider
of
it,
take advice, and speak your minds.
07:020:001 Then all the children of Israel went out,
and the congregation
was
gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba,
with
the land of Gilead, unto the lord in Mizpeh.
07:020:002 And the chief of all the people, even of
all the tribes of
Israel,
presented themselves in the assembly of the people
of
God,
four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.


