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And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his attendant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said to him, Look, now the day draws toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: see, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow rise early on your way, that you may go home.

But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came opposite Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him.

When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the attendant said to his master, Come, I pray you, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

And his master said to him, We will not turn aside into a city of the foreigner, that is not of the sons of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.

And he said to his attendant, Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

And they turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

And, look, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Where do you go? and where do you come from?

And he said to him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah to the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; I am from there, and I went to Beth-lehem-judah: and I am going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man that takes me into his house.

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

Look, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; I will bring them out now, and humble them, and do with them what seems good to you: but to this man don't do any such 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 her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and saw that the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

And he said to her, Rise up, and let us be going; but there was no answer: then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

And when he came into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.

And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, Not any of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.

and see, and watch if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and you catch every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man [of them] his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, or else you would now be guilty.

And the sons of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.