Judges 19:28

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 While the Levite and those who were with him were enjoying themselves, some very bad men from the city surrounded the house. They began beating on the door. They shouted at the old man who owned the house. They said, "Bring out the man who came to your house. We want to have sex with him." ²³ The old man went outside and said to them, "My friends, don't do such an evil thing! This man is a guest in my house. Don't commit this terrible sin. ²⁴ Look, here is my daughter. She has never had sex before. I will bring her out to you now. This man also has a slave woman. You can use them any way you want, but don't do such a terrible sin against this man." ²⁵ But those evil men would not listen to the old man. So the Levite took his slave woman and put her outside with them. They hurt her and raped her all night long. Then, at dawn, they let her go. ²⁶ At dawn, the woman came back to the house where her master was staying. She fell down at the front door and lay there until it was daylight. ²⁷ The Levite got up early the next morning. He wanted to go home. He opened the door to go outside, and a hand fell across the threshold of the door. There was his slave woman. She had fallen down against the door. ²⁸ 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. ²⁹ When he arrived at his house, he took a knife and cut her body into 12 parts. Then he sent the 12 parts of the woman to each of the areas where the Israelites lived. ³⁰ Everyone who saw this said, "Nothing like this has ever happened in Israel before. We haven't seen anything like this from the time we came out of Egypt. Discuss this and tell us what to do."

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 men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back inside the house, and closed the door.

Genesis 19:11
Then they did something to the men outside the door—they caused all these evil men, young and old, to become blind. So the men trying to get in the house could not find the door.

Psalms 107:34
He made the fertile land become salty, because the people living there did such evil things.

2 Peter 2:7
But he saved Lot, a good man who lived there. Lot was greatly troubled by the morally bad lives of those evil people.

Jude 1:7
Also, remember the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other towns around them. Like those angels they were full of sexual sin and involved themselves in sexual relations that are wrong. And they suffer the punishment of eternal fire, an example for us to see.

Revelation 9:2
Then the star opened the hole leading to the pit. Smoke came up from the hole like smoke from a big furnace. The sun and sky became dark because of the smoke from the hole.

Revelation 18:9
"The rulers of the earth who sinned sexually with her and shared her wealth will see the smoke from her burning. Then they will cry and be sad because of her death.

Revelation 18:18
They saw the smoke from her burning. They cried out, ‘There was never a city like this great city!'

Revelation 19:3
These people also said, "Hallelujah! She is burning and her smoke will rise forever and ever."

Revelation 21:8
But those who are cowards, those who refuse to believe, those who do terrible things, those who kill, those who sin sexually, those who do evil magic, those who worship idols, and those who tell lies—they will all have a place in the lake of 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.