And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days and they had food and drink and took their rest there.

So seating themselves they had food and drink, the two of them together and the girl's father said to the man, If it is your pleasure, take your rest here tonight, and let your heart be glad.

Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day.

But the man would not be kept there that night, and he got up and went away and came opposite to Jebus (which is Jerusalem) and he had with him the two asses, ready for travelling, and his woman.

But his master said to him, We will not go out of our way into a strange town, whose people are not of the children of Israel but we will go on to Gibeah.

So they went on their way and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the land of Benjamin.

Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

And he said to him, We are on our way from Beth-lehem-judah to the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim: I came from there and went to Beth-lehem-judah: now I am on my way back to my house, but no man will take me into his house.

And the old man said, Peace be with you let all your needs be my care only do not take your rest in the street.

While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.

See, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his servant-wife: I will send them out for you to take them and do with them whatever you will. But do no such thing of shame to this man.

Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.

And he said to her, Get up and let us be going but there was no answer so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.

And he gave orders to the men whom he sent, saying, This is what you are to say to all the men of Israel, Has ever an act like this been done from the day when the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day? Give thought to it, turning it over in your minds, and give your opinion of it.

And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.

So I took her, cutting her into parts which I sent through all the country of the heritage of Israel: for they have done an act of shame in Israel.

Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his house:

And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?

And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.

And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God, and the children of Israel said, Who is to be the first to go up to the fight against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah is to go up first.

And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).

But the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the same position as on the first day.

So the children of Israel went forward against the children of Benjamin the second day.

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was in his place before it,) and said, Am I still to go on with the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother, or am I to give it up? And the Lord said, Go on for tomorrow I will give him into your hands.

And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in fighting order against Gibeah as before.

And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.

And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, putting their faith in the watchers who were to make the surprise attack on Gibeah.

Now the sign fixed between the men of Israel and those making the surprise attack was that when they made a pillar of smoke go up from the town,

Then the sign went up out of the town in the pillar of smoke, and the Benjamites, turning back, saw all the town going up in smoke to heaven.

So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land but the fight overtook them and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.

So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.

And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without mercy all the towns and the cattle and everything there was, burning every town which came into their hands.

And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.

Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.

And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.

And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting.

So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Then Benjamin came back and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.

Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?

Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,

And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

Then the children of Israel went away from there, every man to his tribe and his family, every man went back to his heritage.

And they made answer, John the Baptist and others, Elijah but others, One of the prophets.

And he put them under orders not to say this of him to anyone.

And he said this openly. And Peter took him, and was protesting.

And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.

What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and made them go up with him into a high mountain by themselves: and he was changed in form before them:

And there came before them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

Because he was not certain what to say, for they were in great fear.

And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one any longer, but Jesus only with themselves.

And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.

And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?