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So they set themselves up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drank, and lodged there.

So they sat down, and ate and drank, both of them together: and the damsel's father said to the man, Be pleased, I pray you, to tarry all night, and let your heart be merry.

So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

And the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, No, my brothers, I pray you, don't do so wickedly; seeing that this man has come into my house, don't do this folly.

But the men would not listen to him: so the man laid hold on his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

And it was so, that all who saw [it] said, [Such a thing] has not happened nor been seen like that from the day the sons of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day. And he commanded the men he sent saying, This is what you shall say to every man of Israel, Has such [a thing] ever happened from the day the sons of Israel came up from Egypt until this day? Consider it, take counsel, and speak.

So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

So the sons of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand swordsmen; all these [were] men of valor.

And the sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives, according to their number, of those that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.

So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi?

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

And she said, Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and has remained standing from morning until now; her sitting now in the house [has only been] for a moment.

So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. And he drew off his shoe.

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son.