Judges 20:6
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I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel’s inheritance, because they committed this lewd and outrageous act in Israel.
Read Judges 20:6 Using Other Translations
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.
So I cut her body into twelve pieces and sent the pieces throughout the territory assigned to Israel, for these men have committed a terrible and shameful crime.
What does Judges 20:6 mean?
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Judges 20:6
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces
Lest it should be thought that these barbarous creatures, after
they had used her in such a manner that occasioned her death,
that they had committed this fact also; the Levite takes it to
himself, and owns that he did that:
and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance
of Israel;
to alarm them, and excite their attention to what had passed, and
to raise their indignation against it:
for they have committed lewdness and folly in
Israel;
being guilty of adultery and murder, and would have committed the
unnatural crime, if they could have had an opportunity of doing
it.
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