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Judges 19:26

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.”

25 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.

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.

28 “Get up,” he told her. “Let us go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.
ASV
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.
DARBY
And the woman came at the dawning of the day, and fell down at the entrance of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
BLB
And the woman came as was dawning the day, and she fell down at the door of the house of the man where her master [was], until the light.
ÅB
Ved daggry kom kvinnen og falt om ved inngangen til den manns hus hos hvem hennes herre var, og der ble hun liggende til det ble lyst.
OTB
Da dagen begynte å gry, vendte kvinnen tilbake til huset hvor hennes herre bodde, kollapset ved døren, og lå der til det ble lyst.
B1930
Ved daggry kom kvinnen og falt om ved inngangen til den manns hus hos hvem hennes herre var, og der blev hun liggende til det blev lyst.

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  • 1 Peter 3:6

    just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. And you are her children if you do what is right and refuse to give way to fear.

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  • Judges 19:3

    her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.

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  • Genesis 18:12

    So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

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  • Judges 19:27

    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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