Judges 19:28

Contemporary English Version

"Get up!" he said. "It's time to leave." But his wife didn't move. He lifted her body onto his donkey and left.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Get up,” he told her. “Let’s go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.

Hebrew Names Version
He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and got him to his place.

King James Version
And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

Lexham English Bible
And he said to her, "Get up, let us go," but there was no answer. So he put her on the donkey, and the man got up and went to his place.

English Standard Version
He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home.

New Century Version
The Levite said to her, "Get up; let's go." But she did not answer. So he put her on his donkey and went home.

New English Translation
He said to her, "Get up, let's leave!" But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.

Amplified Bible
He said to her, "Get up, and let us go." But there was no answer [for she had died]. Then he put her [body] on the donkey; and the man left and went home.

New American Standard Bible
And he said to her, "Get up and let's go," but there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey; and the man set out and went to his home.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee said vnto her, Vp and let vs goe: but shee answered not. Then he tooke her vp vpon the asse, and the man rose vp, and went vnto his place.

Legacy Standard Bible
En hy sê vir haar: Staan op en laat ons trek; maar niemand antwoord nie. Daarop het hy haar op die esel gelaai, en die man het klaargemaak en na sy woonplek getrek.

Complete Jewish Bible
He said to her, "Get up! Let's go!" But there was no answer. So he loaded her body on the donkey and began his trip home.

Darby Translation
And he said to her, Up, and let us go; but no one answered. And he took her upon the ass; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Levite said to her, "Get up; let's go." But there was no answer. The Levite put her body on his donkey and went home.

George Lamsa Translation
And he said to her, Get up, let us go. But she did not answer. Then he put her upon the ass, and the man rose up and went on to his own home.

Good News Translation
He said, "Get up. Let's go." But there was no answer. So he put her body across the donkey and started on his way home.

Literal Translation
And he said to her, Rise up, and we will go. But there was no answer. And he took her on the ass, and the man rose up and went to his place.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He saide vnto her: stonde vp, let vs go, Neuertheles she gaue him no answere. The toke he her vp vpon his asse, gat him vp, and wente vnto his place.

American Standard Version
And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up upon the ass; and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he sayde vnto her, Up, and let vs be goyng: But she aunswered not. Then the man toke her vp vpo an asse, & stoode vp, & gate hym vnto his place.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he said unto her. 'Up, and let us be going'; but none answered; then he took her up upon the ass; and the man rose up, and got him unto his place.

King James Version (1611)
And he said vnto her, Up, and let vs be going. But none answered: then the man tooke her vp vpon an asse, and the man rose vp, and gate him vnto his place.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he said to her, Rise, and let us go; and she answered not, for she was dead: and he took her upon his ass, and went to his place.

English Revised Version
And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up upon the ass; and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

Berean Standard Bible
"Get up," he told her. "Let us go." But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he gesside `hir to reste, `and spak to hir, Rise thou, and go we. `And whanne sche answeride no thing, he vndirstode that sche was deed; and he took hir, and puttide on the asse, and turnede ayen in to his hows.

Young's Literal Translation
and he saith unto her, `Rise, and we go;' and there is none answering, and he taketh her on the ass, and the man riseth and goeth to his place,

Update Bible Version
And he said to her, Rise up, and let us be going; but there was no answer: then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to her, Rise, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her upon an ass, and the man rose, and went to his place.

World English Bible
He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and got him to his place.

New King James Version
And he said to her, "Get up and let us be going." But there was no answer. So the man lifted her onto the donkey; and the man got up and went to his place.

New Living Translation
He said, "Get up! Let's go!" But there was no answer. So he put her body on his donkey and took her home.

New Life Bible
He said to her, "Get up. Let us be going." But there was no answer. He put her body across the donkey and started on his way home.

New Revised Standard
"Get up," he said to her, "we are going." But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey; and the man set out for his home.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he said unto her - Up! and let us be going. But there was no answer. So he took her up on the ass, and the man rose up, and went his way to his own place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He thinking she was taking her rest, said to her: Arise, and let us be going. But as she made no answer, perceiving she was dead, he took her up, and laid her upon his ass, and returned to his house.

Revised Standard Version
He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." But there was no answer. Then he put her upon the ass; and the man rose up and went away to his home.

THE MESSAGE
"Get up," he said. "Let's get going." There was no answer.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He said to her, "Get up and let us go," but there was no answer. Then he placed her on the donkey; and the man arose and went to his home.

Contextual Overview

²² They were having a good time, when some worthless men of that town surrounded the house and started banging on the door and shouting, "A man came to your house tonight. Send him out, so we can have sex with him!" ²³ The old man went outside and said, "My friends, please don't commit such a horrible crime against a man who is a guest in my house. ²⁴ Let me send out my daughter instead. She's a virgin. And I'll even send out the man's wife. You can rape them or do whatever else you want, but please don't do such a horrible thing to this man." ²⁵ The men refused to listen, so the Levite grabbed his wife and shoved her outside. The men raped her and abused her all night long. Finally, they let her go just before sunrise, ²⁶ and it was almost daybreak when she went back to the house where her husband was staying. She collapsed at the door and lay there until sunrise. ²⁷ About that time, her husband woke up and got ready to leave. He opened the door and went outside, where he found his wife lying at the door with her hands on the doorstep. ²⁸ "Get up!" he said. "It's time to leave." But his wife didn't move. He lifted her body onto his donkey and left. ²⁹ When he got home, he took a butcher knife and cut her body into twelve pieces. Then he told some messengers, "Take one piece to each tribe of Israel ³⁰ and ask everyone if anything like this has ever happened since Israel left Egypt. Tell them to think about it, talk it over, and tell us what should be done." Everyone who saw a piece of the body said, "This is horrible! Nothing like this has ever happened since the day Israel left Egypt."

Bible Verse Review
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But none: Judges 20:5, 1 Kings 18:29

Reciprocal: Judges 4:14 - Up 1 Samuel 9:26 - Up

Cross-References

Genesis 19:10
But the two angels in the house reached out and pulled Lot safely inside.

Genesis 19:11
Then they struck everyone in the crowd blind, and none of them could even find the door.

Psalms 107:34
flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

2 Peter 2:7
Lot lived right and was greatly troubled by the terrible way those wicked people were living. He was a good man, and day after day he suffered because of the evil things he saw and heard. So the Lord rescued him.

Jude 1:7
We should also be warned by what happened to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns. Their people became immoral and did all sorts of sexual sins. Then God made an example of them and punished them with eternal fire.

Revelation 9:2
As it opened the tunnel, smoke poured out like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air turned dark because of the smoke.

Revelation 18:9
Every king on earth who slept with her and shared in her luxury will mourn. They will weep, when they see the smoke from that fire.

Revelation 18:18
When they saw the smoke from her fire, they shouted, "This was the greatest city ever!"

Revelation 19:3
Then the crowd shouted, "Praise the Lord! Smoke will never stop rising from her burning body."

Revelation 21:8
But I will tell you what will happen to cowards and to everyone who is unfaithful or dirty-minded or who murders or is sexually immoral or uses witchcraft or worships idols or tells lies. They will be thrown into that lake of fire and burning sulfur. This is the second death.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto her, up, and let us be going,.... He spoke to her as supposing her asleep, in order to awake her, and prepare for their journey with all the haste they could, lest greater mischief should befall them:

but none answered; for she was dead; and her death was occasioned, as Josephus w says, partly through grief at what she had suffered, and partly through shame, not daring to come into the sight of her husband; but chiefly through the injuries done her by the number of persons that had lain with her: so it is reported x of the Thessalonians, when they took Phocis, many women were destroyed through the abundance of rapes committed upon them. To these Abarbinel adds, the cold of the night, being without her clothes, or anything to cover her:

then the man took her up upon an ass; and carried off her dead body, without making any remonstrance to the inhabitants, from whom he could not expect that any justice would be done him:

and the man rose up, and got him unto his place; to his city on one side Mount Ephraim, to which he made as much haste as he could, instead of going to the house of God at Shiloh, as he proposed; for now the circumstances of things were changed with him, and instead of sacrificing and giving praise to God in his house, his business was to seek for justice from the tribes of Israel.

w Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 2. sect. 8.) x Herodot. Urania, sive, l. 8. c. 33.