Judges 19:27
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.
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.
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.
29 When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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 had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
- ASV
- 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, with her hands upon the threshold.
- DARBY
- And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the door of the house, and went out to go his way, and behold, there lay the woman his concubine at the entrance of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
- BLB
- And her master arose in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way, and there was the woman, his concubine, fallen [at] the door of the house, and her hands [were] on the threshold.
- ÅB
- Da hennes herre sto opp om morgenen og lukket opp husets dør og gikk ut for å reise videre, da lå kvinnen, hans medhustru, ved inngangen til huset med hendene på dørtreskelen.
- OTB
- Da hennes herre sto opp om morgenen, åpnet døren og gikk ut for å fortsette på sin vei, fant han sin medhustru liggende ved døråpningen til huset, med hendene på terskelen.
- B1930
- Da hennes herre stod op om morgenen og lukket op husets dør og gikk ut for å reise videre, da lå kvinnen, hans medhustru, ved inngangen til huset med hendene på dørtreskelen.