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Judges 19:25

Sin

23 The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.

24 Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”

But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

26 Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.

27 In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

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BSB
But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
KJV
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.
WEB
But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning. When the day began to dawn, they let her go.
ASV
But the men would not hearken to him: so the man laid hold on 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.
DARBY
But the men would not hearken to him; and the man took his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning; and let her go when the morning-dawn arose.
BLB
And the men would not listen to him. And the man took his concubine and brought [her] out to them outside. And they knew her and abused her all the night until the morning, and sent her away at the rising of the dawn.
ÅB
Men mennene ville ikke høre på ham. Da tok mannen sin medhustru og førte henne ut på gaten til dem, og de lå hos henne og fór ille med henne hele natten til om morgenen og slapp henne ikke før det begynte å lysne.
OTB
Men mennene ville ikke høre på ham. Så mannen tok sin medhustru og sendte henne ut til dem. De voldtok henne og misbrukte henne hele natten, og ved daggry lot de henne gå.
B1930
Men mennene vilde ikke høre på ham. Da tok mannen sin medhustru og førte henne ut på gaten til dem, og de lå hos henne og fór ille med henne hele natten til om morgenen og slapp henne ikke før det begynte å lysne.

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Cross references

  • Ephesians 4:19

    Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

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  • Hosea 7:4–7

    They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

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  • Jeremiah 5:7–8

    “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

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  • Hosea 10:9

    Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?

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  • Hosea 9:9

    They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

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  • Genesis 4:1

    And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.

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