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 \v 9 In the afternoon, when the man from the tribe of Levi and his slave wife and his servant got up to leave, the woman's father said, "It will soon be dark. The day is almost finished. Stay here tonight and have a good time. Tomorrow morning you can get up early and leave for your home."
 
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-\v 10 But the man from the tribe of Levi did not want to stay for another night. He put saddles on his two donkeys, and started to go with his slave wife and his servant toward the city of Jebus, which is now named Jerusalem.
+\v 10 But the man from the tribe of Levi did not want to stay for another night. He put saddles on his two donkeys and started to go with his slave wife and his servant toward the city of Jebus, which is now named Jerusalem.
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-\v 11 When it was late in the afternoon, they came near to Jebus. The servant said to his master, "We should stop in this city where the Jebus people live, and stay here tonight."
+\v 11 When it was late in the afternoon, they came near to Jebus. The servant said to his master, "We should stop in this city where the Jebus people live and stay here tonight."
 
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 \v 24 Look, my virgin daughter and his concubine are here. I will bring them out to you now. You may do to them whatever you wish, but do not do such a terrible thing to this man!"
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-\v 25 But the men did not pay attention to what he said. So the man took his concubine and sent her to them, outside the house. They forced her to have sex with them and abused her all night. Then at dawn, they let her go.
+\v 25 But the men did not pay attention to what he said. So the man took his concubine and sent her to them, outside the house. They forced her to have sex with them and abused her all night. Then at dawn they let her go.
 \v 26 She returned to the old man's house, and she fell down at the doorway and lay there until it was light.
 
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-\v 29 When he arrived at his home, he took a knife and he cut the body of the slave woman into twelve pieces. Then he sent one piece to each area of Israel, along with a message telling what had happened.
+\v 29 When he arrived at his home, he took a knife, and he cut the body of the slave woman into twelve pieces. Then he sent one piece to each area of Israel, along with a message telling what had happened.
 \v 30 Everyone who saw a piece of the body and the message said, "Nothing like this has ever happened before. Not since our ancestors left Egypt have we heard of such a terrible thing. We need to think carefully about it. Someone should decide what we should do."
 
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-\v 1 All the soldiers of Israel came out united as one man, from the city of Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, and from the region of Gilead to the east of the Jordan River, all of them heard what had happened. So they gathered together before Yahweh at Mizpah.
+\v 1 All the soldiers of Israel came out united as one man, from the city of Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south and from the region of Gilead to the east of the Jordan River; all of them heard what had happened. So they gathered together before Yahweh at Mizpah.
 \v 2 The leaders of eleven of the tribes of Israel stood in front of the people who gathered there. There were 400,000 men on foot, fighting men who were there.
 
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-\v 3 The people of the tribe of Benjamin heard that the other Israelites had gone up to Mizpah, but none of the men from the Benjamin tribe had gone to the meeting there.
+\v 3 The people of the tribe of Benjamin heard that the other Israelites had gone up to Mizpah, but none of the men from the tribe of Benjamin had gone to the meeting there.
 \p The people of Israel asked about the evil thing that had happened.
 \v 4 So the Levite who was the husband of the woman who had been killed replied, "My slave wife and I came to Gibeah, wanting to stay there that night.
 
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 \v 5 That evening, the men of Gibeah came to attack me. They surrounded the house where I was staying and wanted to have sex with me and then kill me. They abused my slave wife and raped her all night, and she died.
-\v 6 I took her body home and cut it into pieces. Then I sent one piece to each area of Israel, because I wanted you all to know about this wicked and disgraceful thing that has been done here in Israel.
+\v 6 I took her body home and cut it into pieces. Then I sent one piece to each area of Israel because I wanted you all to know about this wicked and disgraceful thing that has been done here in Israel.
 \v 7 So now, all you Israelite people, speak, and tell me what you think should be done!"
 
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-\v 8 All the people stood up, and unitedly said, "None of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!
+\v 8 All the people stood up and unitedly said, "None of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!
 \v 9 This is what we must do to the people of Gibeah. First, we will cast lots to determine which group should attack them.
 
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 \v 17 The soldiers of Israel, not including the soldiers from Benjamin, numbered 400,000 men. All of these were trained to fight with the sword, men experienced at fighting in war.
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-\v 18 Those other Israelites went up to Bethel and asked advice from God, "Which tribe should be the first to attack the men from the tribe of Benjamin?"
+\v 18 Those other Israelites went up to Bethel and asked advice from God: "Which tribe should be the first to attack the men from the tribe of Benjamin?"
 \p Yahweh answered, "The men from the tribe of Judah should go first."
 
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 \v 19 The next morning, the Israelite men went and set up their tents near Gibeah.
-\v 20 Then they went to fight against the men from the tribe of Benjamin, and stood in their positions for fighting a battle, facing Gibeah.
+\v 20 Then they went to fight against the men from the tribe of Benjamin and stood in their positions for fighting a battle, facing Gibeah.
 \v 21 The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and fought against them, and they killed twenty-two thousand soldiers from Israel on that day.
 
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 \v 24 The next day they again stood in their positions for fighting, just as they had done on the previous day.
-\v 25 The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and attacked the Israelites, and killed eighteen thousand more of their men.
+\v 25 The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and attacked the Israelites and killed eighteen thousand more of their men.
 
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-\v 26 In the afternoon, all the people of Israel who had not been killed again went to Bethel. There they sat down and cried to Yahweh, and they fasted until it was evening. They brought some offerings which they burned completely on the altar, and they also brought some offerings to restore fellowship with Yahweh.
+\v 26 In the afternoon, all the people of Israel who had not been killed again went to Bethel. There they sat down and cried to Yahweh, and they fasted until it was evening. They brought some offerings that they burned completely on the altar, and they also brought some offerings to restore fellowship with Yahweh.
 
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-\v 27 The people of Israel asked Yahweh,—for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
-\v 28 and Phinehas son of Eleazar, was the grandson of Aaron; he was serving before the ark in those days—"Should we go out to battle once more against the people of Benjamin, who are out brothers, or should we stop?" Yahweh said, "Attack! For tomorrow I will help you defeat them."
+\v 27 The people of Israel asked Yahweh—for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
+\v 28 and Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron was serving before the ark in those days: "Should we go out to battle once more against the people of Benjamin, who are out brothers, or should we stop?" Yahweh said, "Attack! For tomorrow I will help you defeat them."
 
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 \v 29 Israelite men set up an ambush in the fields around Gibeah.
-\v 30 The other Israelite men went and stood in their positions for fighting a battle just as they had done on the previous days.
+\v 30 The other Israelite men went and stood in their positions for fighting a battle, just as they had done on the previous days.
 
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 \v 31 When the men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of the city to fight against them, the Israelite men retreated away from the city, and the men of the tribe of Benjamin pursued them. The men of the tribe of Benjamin killed many Israelites, like they had done before. They killed about thirty Israelites, who died in the fields and on the roads—one of the roads went to Bethel and another road went to Gibeah.
 
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-\v 32 The men of the tribe of Benjamin said, "We are defeating them like we did before!" But then Israelite men did what they had planned. The main group of Israelite men retreated a short distance from the city, to trick the men of Gibeah and cause them to pursue the Israelite men along the roads outside the city.
+\v 32 The men of the tribe of Benjamin said, "We are defeating them like we did before!" But then Israelite men did what they had planned. The main group of Israelite men retreated a short distance from the city to trick the men of Gibeah and cause them to pursue the Israelite men along the roads outside the city.
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 \v 33 The main group of Israelite men left their positions and retreated, and then they stood in their battle positions again at a place named Baal Tamar. Then the soldiers of Israel who had been hiding in secret places ran out from their places in Maareh Gibeah.
 
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 \v 34 Then the other ten thousand Israelites came out from the places where they had been hiding, west of Gibeah, and attacked the city. They were men who had come from all parts of Israel. There was a very big battle. But the men of the tribe of Benjamin did not know that they were about to have a disastrous defeat.
-\v 35 Yahweh enabled the Israelite men to defeat the men of the tribe of Benjamin. They killed 25,100 of them, all of them were fighting men.
+\v 35 Yahweh enabled the Israelite men to defeat the men of the tribe of Benjamin. They killed 25,100 of them; all of them were fighting men.
 
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-\v 36 So the soldiers of Benjamin saw they were defeated. The men of Israel had given ground to Benjamin, because they were counting on the men they had placed in hidden positions outside Gibeah to go out and shift the battle in their favor.
-\v 37 Then the men who were hiding got up and hurried and they rushed into Gibeah, and with their swords they killed everyone who lived in the city.
+\v 36 So the soldiers of Benjamin saw they were defeated. The men of Israel had given ground to Benjamin because they were counting on the men they had placed in hidden positions outside Gibeah to go out and shift the battle in their favor.
+\v 37 Then the men who were hiding got up and hurried and rushed into Gibeah, and with their swords they killed everyone who lived in the city.
 \v 38 Now the arranged signal between the soldiers of Israel and the men hiding in secret would be that a great cloud of smoke would rise up out of the city.
 
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 \v 40 But then smoke from the burning buildings began to rise up from the city. The men of the tribe of Benjamin turned around and saw that the whole city was burning.
-\v 41 Then the main group of Israelite men also saw the smoke, and they knew that the smoke signaled that they should turn around and begin to attack. The men of the tribe of Benjamin were very afraid, because they realized that they were about to have a disastrous defeat.
+\v 41 Then the main group of Israelite men also saw the smoke, and they knew that the smoke signaled that they should turn around and begin to attack. The men of the tribe of Benjamin were very afraid because they realized that they were about to have a disastrous defeat.
 
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-\v 42 So the men of the tribe of Benjamin tried to run away toward the wilderness to escape from the Israelite men, but they were not able to escape, because the Israelite men who had burned the two cities came out of those cities and killed many of them.
+\v 42 So the men of the tribe of Benjamin tried to run away toward the wilderness to escape from the Israelite men, but they were not able to escape because the Israelite men who had burned the two cities came out of those cities and killed many of them.
 
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-\v 43 They surrounded some of the men of the tribe of Benjamin, and pursued the others to the area east of Gibeah.
+\v 43 They surrounded some of the men of the tribe of Benjamin and pursued the others to the area east of Gibeah.
 \v 44 They killed eighteen thousand strong soldiers of the tribe of Benjamin.
 
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 \v 45 Then the rest of the men of the tribe of Benjamin realized that they had been defeated. They ran toward the rock of Rimmon, but the Israelite men killed five thousand more men of the tribe of Benjamin who fell behind along the roads. They pursued the rest of them to Gidom, and they killed two thousand more.
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-\v 46 Altogether, there were twenty-five thousand—men of the tribe of Benjamin who were killed, all of them were experienced fighting men.
+\v 46 Altogether, there were twenty-five thousand men of the tribe of Benjamin who were killed; all of them were experienced fighting men.
 
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 \v 47 But six hundred men of the tribe of Benjamin ran to the rock of Rimmon in the wilderness. They stayed there for four months.
-\v 48 Then the Israelite men went back to the land belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, and killed the people in every city. They also killed all the animals, and destroyed everything else that they found there. And they burned all the cities that they came to.
+\v 48 Then the Israelite men went back to the land belonging to the tribe of Benjamin and killed the people in every city. They also killed all the animals and destroyed everything else that they found there, and they burned all the cities that they came to.
 
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-\v 4 Early the next morning the people built an altar. Then they completely burned some sacrifices on the altar, and also offered other sacrifices to restore fellowship with God.
+\v 4 Early the next morning, the people built an altar. Then they completely burned some sacrifices on the altar and also offered other sacrifices to restore fellowship with God.
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 \v 5 Then, because they had solemnly declared that anyone who did not meet with them at Mizpah to help fight the men of the tribe of Benjamin would be killed, they asked among themselves, "Were there any of the tribes of Israel who did not come to Mizpah to meet with us in the presence of Yahweh?"
 
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 \v 6 The Israelites felt sorry for their fellow Israelites from the tribe of Benjamin. They said, "Today one of our Israelite tribes has been cut off from Israel.
-\v 7 What can we do to make certain that the men of the tribe of Benjamin who were not killed will have wives?" Yahweh heard us solemnly declare that we would not allow any of our daughters to marry any man from the tribe of Benjamin.
+\v 7 What can we do to make certain that the men of the tribe of Benjamin who were not killed will have wives? Yahweh heard us solemnly declare that we would not allow any of our daughters to marry any man from the tribe of Benjamin."
 
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 \v 8 Then one of them asked, "Which of the tribes of Israel did not send any men here to Mizpah?"
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 \v 11 They told this to those men: "This is what you must do: You must kill every man in Jabesh Gilead. You must also kill every married woman. But do not kill the unmarried women."
-\v 12 So those soldiers went to Jabesh Gilead and killed all the men, married women, and the children. But they found four hundred virgin young women there. So they brought them to their camp at Shiloh in Canaan, across the river from the region of Gilead that belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.
+\v 12 So those soldiers went to Jabesh Gilead and killed all the men, the married women, and the children. But they found four hundred virgin young women there. So they brought them to their camp at Shiloh in Canaan, across the river from the region of Gilead that belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.
 
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 \v 13 Then all the Israelites who had gathered sent a message to the six hundred men who were at the rock of Rimmon. They said that they would like to make peace with them.
-\v 14 So the men came back from the rock of Rimmon. The Israelites gave to them the young women from Jabesh Gilead. But there were only four hundred women There were not enough women for those six hundred men.
+\v 14 So the men came back from the rock of Rimmon. The Israelites gave to them the young women from Jabesh Gilead. But there were only four hundred women. There were not enough women for those six hundred men.
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-\v 15 The Israelites still felt sorry for the men of the tribe of Benjamin, because Yahweh had set the other tribes against them.
+\v 15 The Israelites still felt sorry for the men of the tribe of Benjamin because Yahweh had set the other tribes against them.
 
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 \v 16 The Israelite leaders said, "We have killed all the married women of the tribe of Benjamin. Where can we get women to be wives of the men who are still alive?
-\v 17 These men must have wives to give birth to children, in order that their families of Benjamin will continue. If that does not happen, all the people of one of the tribes of Israel will all die out, and the tribe will be destroyed.
+\v 17 These men must have wives to give birth to children so that their families of Benjamin will continue. If that does not happen, all the people of one of the tribes of Israel will all die out, and the tribe will be destroyed.
 
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-\v 18 But we cannot allow our daughters to marry these men, because we solemnly declared that Yahweh will curse anyone who gives one of his daughters to become a wife of any man of the tribe of Benjamin."
+\v 18 But we cannot allow our daughters to marry these men because we solemnly declared that Yahweh will curse anyone who gives one of his daughters to become a wife of any man of the tribe of Benjamin."
 \v 19 Then they had an idea. They said, "Every year there is a festival to honor Yahweh at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel and east of the road that extends from Bethel to Shechem, and it is south of the city of Lebonah."
 
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 \v 23 So that is what the men of the tribe of Benjamin did. They went to Shiloh at the time of the festival. And when the young women were dancing, each man caught one of them and took her away and married her. Then they took their wives back to the land that God had given to them. They rebuilt their cities that had been burned down, and they lived there.
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-\v 24 The other Israelites went to their home in the areas where their tribes and clans lived, the areas that God had allotted to them.
+\v 24 The other Israelites went to their home in the areas where their tribes and clans lived—the areas that God had allotted to them.
 
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