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1이스라엘에 왕이 없을 그 때에 에브라임 산지 구석에 우거하는 어떤 레위 사람이 유다 베들레헴에서 첩을 취하였더니 2그 첩이 행음하고 남편을 떠나 유다 베들레헴 그 아비의 집에 돌아가서 거기서 넉달의 날을 보내매 3그 남편이 그 여자에게 다정히 말하고 그를 데려오고자 하여 하인 하나와 나귀 두 필을 데리고 그에게로 가매 여자가 그를 인도하여 아비의 집에 들어가니 그 여자의 아비가 그를 보고 환영하니라 4그 첩장인 곧 여자의 아비가 그를 머물리매 그가 삼 일을 그와 함께 거하며 먹고 마시며 거기서 유숙하다가 5나흘 만에 일찍이 일어나 떠나고자 하매 여자의 아비가 그 사위에게 이르되 떡을 조금 먹어 그대의 기력을 도운 후에 그대의 길을 행하라 6두 사람이 앉아서 함께 먹고 마시매 여자의 아비가 그 사람에게 이르되 청하노니 이 밤을 여기서 유숙하여 그대의 마음을 즐겁게 하라 7그 사람이 일어나서 가고자 하되 첩장인의 간청으로 다시 유숙하더니 8다섯째 날 아침에 일찍이 일어나 떠나고자 하매 여자의 아비가 이르되 청하노니 그대의 기력을 돕고 해가 기울도록 머물라 하므로 두 사람이 함께 먹고 9그 사람이 첩과 하인으로 더불어 일어나 떠나고자 하매 그 첩장인 곧 여자의 아비가 그에게 이르되 보라 이제 해가 저물어가니 청컨대 이 밤도 유숙하라 보라 해가 기울었느니라 그대는 여기서 유숙하여 그대의 마음을 즐겁게 하고 내일 일찍이 그대의 길을 행하여 그대의 집으로 돌아가라 10그 사람이 다시 밤을 지내고자 아니하여 일어나 떠나서 여부스 맞은편에 이르렀으니 여부스는 곧 예루살렘이라 안장 지운 나귀 둘과 첩이 그와 함께 하였더라 11그들이 여부스에 가까웠을 때에 해가 지려 하는지라 종이 주인에게 이르되 청컨대 우리가 돌이켜 여부스 사람의 이 성읍에 들어가서 유숙하사이다 12주인이 그에게 이르되 우리가 돌이켜 이스라엘 자손에게 속하지 아니한 외인의 성읍으로 들어갈 것이 아니니 기브아로 나아가리라 하고 13또 그 종에게 이르되 우리가 기브아나 라마 중 한 곳에 나아가 거기서 유숙하자 하고 14모두 앞으로 행하더니 베냐민에 속한 기브아에 가까이 이르러는 해가 진지라 15기브아에 가서 유숙하려고 그리로 돌이켜 들어가서 성읍 거리에 앉았으나 그를 집으로 영접하여 유숙케 하는 자가 없었더라 16이미 저물매 한 노인이 밭에서 일하다가 돌아오니 그 사람은 본래 에브라임 산지 사람으로서 기브아에 우거하는 자요 그곳 사람들은 베냐민 사람이더라 17노인이 눈을 들어 성읍 거리에 행객이 있는 것을 본지라 노인이 묻되 그대는 어디로 가며 어디서 왔느뇨 18그가 그에게 이르되 우리는 유다 베들레헴에서 에브라임 산지 구석으로 가나이다 나는 그곳 사람으로서 유다 베들레헴에 갔다가 이제 여호와의 집으로 가는 중인데 나를 자기 집으로 영접하는 사람이 없나이다 19우리에게는 나귀들에게 먹일 짚과 보리가 있고 나와 당신의 여종과 당신의 종 우리들과 함께한 소년의 먹을 양식과 포도주가 있어 무엇이든지 부족함이 없나이다 20노인이 가로되 그대는 안심하라 그대의 모든 쓸 것은 나의 담책이니 거리에서는 자지 말라 하고 21그를 데리고 자기 집에 들어가서 나귀에게 먹이니 그들이 발을 씻고 먹고 마시니라 22그들이 마음을 즐겁게 할 때에 그 성읍의 비류들이 그 집을 에워 싸고 문을 두들기며 집 주인 노인에게 말하여 가로되 네 집에 들어온 사람을 끌어내라 우리가 그를 상관하리라 23집 주인 그 사람이 그들에게로 나와서 이르되 아니라 내 형제들아 청하노니 악을 행치 말라 이 사람이 내 집에 들었으니 이런 망령된 일을 행치 말라 24보라 여기 내 처녀 딸과 이 사람의 첩이 있은즉 내가 그들을 끌어 내리니 너희가 그들을 욕보이든지 어찌하든지 임의로 하되 오직 이 사람에게는 이런 망령된 일을 행치 말라 하나 25무리가 듣지 아니하므로 그 사람이 자기 첩을 무리에게로 붙들어내매 그들이 그에게 행음하여 밤새도록 욕보이다가 새벽 미명에 놓은지라 26동틀 때에 여인이 그 주인의 우거한 그 사람의 집 문에 이르러 엎드러져 밝기까지 거기 누웠더라 27그의 주인이 일찍이 일어나 집 문을 열고 떠나고자 하더니 그 여인이 집 문에 엎드러지고 그 두 손이 문지방에 있는 것을 보고 28그에게 이르되 일어나라 우리가 떠나가자 하나 아무 대답이 없는지라 이에 그 시체를 나귀에 싣고 행하여 자기 곳에 돌아가서 29그 집에 이르러서는 칼을 취하여 첩의 시체를 붙들어 그 마디를 찍어 열두 덩이에 나누고 그것을 이스라엘 사방에 두루 보내매 30그것을 보는 자가 다 가로되 이스라엘 자손이 애굽 땅에서 나온 날부터 오늘날까지 이런 일은 행치도 아니하였고 보지도 못하였도다 생각하고 상의한 후에 말하자 하니라

1In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. 2His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months. 3Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. 4His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, retained him; and he stayed with him three days: so they ate and drink, and lodged there. 5On the fourth day, they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.” 6So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together: and the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.” 7The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again. 8He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines”; and they both ate. 9When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.” 10But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him. 11When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.” 12His master said to him, “We won’t turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.” 13He said to his servant, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.” 14So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. 15They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge. 16Behold, 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 lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites. 17He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?” 18He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no man who takes me into his house. 19Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.” 20The old man said, “Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don’t lodge in the street.” 21So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; and they washed their feet, and ate and drink. 22As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!” 23The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly. 24Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly.” 25But the men wouldn’t listen to him: so the man laid hold of his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning: and when the day began to dawn, they let her go. 26Then came the woman 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. 27Her 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 on the threshold. 28He said to her, “Get up, and let us be going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place. 29When he had come 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. 30It was so, that all who saw it said, “There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”

1Het geschiedde ook in die dagen, als er geen koning was in Israel, dat er een Levietisch man was, verkerende als vreemdeling aan de zijden van het gebergte van Efraim, die zich een vrouw, een bijwijf, nam van Bethlehem-Juda. 2Maar zijn bijwijf hoereerde, bij hem zijnde, en toog van hem weg naar haars vaders huis, tot Bethlehem-Juda; en zij was aldaar enige dagen, te weten vier maanden. 3En haar man maakte zich op, en toog haar na, om naar haar hart te spreken, om haar weder te halen; en zijn jongen was bij hem, en een paar ezels. En zij bracht hem in het huis haars vaders. En als de vader van de jonge vrouw hem zag, werd hij vrolijk over zijn ontmoeting. 4En zijn schoonvader, de vader van de jonge vrouw, behield hem, dat hij drie dagen bij hem bleef; en zij aten en dronken, en vernachtten aldaar. 5Op den vierden dag nu geschiedde het, dat zij des morgens vroeg op waren, en hij opstond om weg te trekken; toen zeide de vader van de jonge dochter tot zijn schoonzoon: Sterk uw hart met een bete broods, en daarna zult gijlieden wegtrekken. 6Zo zaten zij neder, en zij beiden aten te zamen, en dronken. Toen zeide de vader van de jonge vrouw tot den man: Bewillig toch en vernacht, en laat uw hart vrolijk zijn. 7Maar de man stond op, om weg te trekken. Toen drong hem zijn schoonvader, dat hij aldaar wederom vernachtte. 8Als hij op den vijfden dag des morgens vroeg op was, om weg te trekken, zo zeide de vader van de jonge vrouw: Sterk toch uw hart. En zij vertoefden, totdat de dag zich neigde; en zij beiden aten te zamen. 9Toen maakte de man zich op, om weg te trekken, hij, en zijn bijwijf, en zijn jongen; en zijn schoonvader, de vader van de jonge vrouw, zeide: Zie toch, de dag heeft afgenomen, dat het avond zal worden, vernacht toch; zie, de dag legert zich, vernacht hier, en laat uw hart vrolijk zijn, en maak u morgen vroeg op uws weegs, en ga naar uw tent. 10Doch de man wilde niet vernachten, maar stond op, en trok weg, en kwam tot tegenover Jebus (dewelke is Jeruzalem), en met hem het paar gezadelde ezelen; ook was zijn bijwijf met hem. 11Als zij nu bij Jebus waren, zo was de dag zeer gedaald; en de jongen zeide tot zijn heer: Trek toch voort, en laat ons in deze stad der Jebusieten wijken, en daarin vernachten. 12Maar zijn heer zeide tot hem: Wij zullen herwaarts niet wijken tot een vreemde stad, die niet is van de kinderen Israels; maar wij zullen voorttrekken tot Gibea toe. 13Voorts zeide hij tot zijn jongen: Ga voort, dat wij tot een van die plaatsen naderen, en te Gibea of te Rama vernachten. 14Alzo togen zij voort, en wandelden; en de zon ging hun onder bij Gibea, dewelke Benjamins is; 15En zij weken daarheen, dat zij inkwamen, om in Gibea te vernachten. Toen hij nu inkwam, zat hij neder in een straat der stad, want er was niemand, die hen in huis nam, om te vernachten. 16En ziet, een oud man kwam van zijn werk van het veld in den avond, welke man ook was van het gebergte van Efraim, doch als vreemdeling verkeerde te Gibea; maar de lieden dezer plaats waren kinderen van Jemini. 17Als hij nu zijn ogen ophief, zo zag hij die reizenden man op de straat der stad; en de oude man zeide: Waar trekt gij henen, en van waar komt gij? 18En hij zeide tot hem: Wij trekken door van Bethlehem-Juda tot aan de zijden van het gebergte van Efraim, van waar ik ben; en ik was naar Bethlehem-Juda getogen, maar ik trek nu naar het huis des HEEREN; en er is niemand, die mij in huis neemt. 19Daar toch onze ezelen zowel stro als voeder hebben, en ook brood en wijn is voor mij, en voor uw dienstmaagd, en voor de jongen, die bij uw knechten is; er is aan geen ding gebrek. 20Toen zeide de oude man: Vrede zij u! al wat u ontbreekt, is toch bij mij; alleenlijk vernacht niet op de straat. 21En hij bracht hem in zijn huis, en gaf aan de ezelen voeder; en hun voeten gewassen hebbende, zo aten en dronken zij. 22Toen zij nu hun hart vrolijk maakten, ziet, zo omringden de mannen van die stad (mannen, die Belials kinderen waren) het huis, kloppende op de deur; en zij spraken tot den ouden man, den heer des huizes, zeggende: Breng den man, die in uw huis gekomen is, uit, opdat wij hem bekennen. 23En de man, de heer des huizes, ging tot hen uit, en zeide tot hen: Niet, mijn broeders, doet toch zo kwalijk niet; naardien deze man in mijn huis gekomen is, zo doet zulke dwaasheid niet. 24Ziet, mijn dochter die maagd is, en zijn bijwijf, die zal ik nu uitbrengen, dat gij die schendt, en haar doet, wat goed is in uw ogen; maar doet aan dezen man zulk een dwaas ding niet. 25Maar de mannen wilden naar hem niet horen. Toen greep de man zijn bijwijf, en bracht haar uit tot hen daarbuiten; en zij bekenden haar, en waren met haar bezig den gansen nacht tot aan den morgen, en lieten haar gaan, als de dageraad oprees. 26En deze vrouw kwam tegen het aanbreken van den morgenstond, en viel neder voor de deur van het huis des mans, waarin haar heer was, totdat het licht werd. 27Als nu haar heer des morgens opstond en de deuren van het huis opendeed, en uitging om zijns weegs te gaan, ziet, zo lag de vrouw, zijn bijwijf, aan de deur van het huis, en haar handen op den dorpel. 28En hij zeide tot haar: Sta op, en laat ons trekken; maar niemand antwoordde. Toen nam hij haar op den ezel, en de man maakte zich op, en toog naar zijn plaats. 29Als hij nu in zijn huis kwam, zo nam hij een mes, en greep zijn bijwijf, en deelde haar met haar beenderen in twaalf stukken; en hij zond ze in alle landpalen van Israel. 30En het geschiedde, dat al wie het zag, zeide: Zulks is niet geschied noch gezien, van dien dag af, dat de kinderen Israels uit Egypteland zijn opgetogen, tot op dezen dag; legt uw hart daarop, geeft raad en spreekt!