19. We already have straw and food for our donkeys. There is bread and wine for me, the young woman and my servant. We don’t need anything.”
20. The old man said, “You are welcome to stay at my house. Let me give you anything you need. But don’t spend the night in the public square.”
21. So the old man took the Levite into his house. He fed their donkeys, and they washed their feet. Then he gave them something to eat and drink.
22. While they were enjoying themselves, some wicked men of the city surrounded the house. They beat on the door. They shouted to the old man who owned the house. They said, “Bring out the man who came to your house. We want to force him to have physical relations with us.”
23. The owner of the house went outside. And he said to them, “No, my friends. Don’t be so evil. This man is a guest in my house. Don’t do this terrible thing!
24. Look, here is my daughter. She is a virgin. And here is the man’s slave woman. I will bring them out to you now. Do anything you want with them. But don’t do such a terrible thing to this man.”
25. But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his slave woman and sent her outside to them. They raped her. They treated her very badly all night long. Then, at dawn, they let her go.
26. She came back to the house where her master was staying. She fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.
27. In the morning the Levite got up. He opened the door of the house. He went outside to go on his way. But there lay his slave woman. She had fallen down at the doorway of the house. Her hands were on the doorsill.