^5 (A)And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.

Gibeah's Crime

²² As they were ^(A)making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, ^(B)surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”

²⁵ But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go. ²⁶ And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, until it was light.

²⁴ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. ^(A)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. ^5 (A)And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? ^(B)Bring them out to us, that we ^(C)may know them.” ⁶ Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, ⁷ and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. ^8 (D)Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

¹⁰ In you ^(A)men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. ^11 (B)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; ^(C)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; ^(D)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.