Judges 20:4
Good News Translation
The Levite whose concubine had been murdered answered, "My concubine and I went to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.

New Revised Standard Version
The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.

Contemporary English Version
The husband of the murdered woman answered: My wife and I went into the town of Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

New American Bible
and the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, testified: “It was at Gibeah of Benjamin, which my concubine and I had entered for the night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Answered: I came into Gabaa, of Benjamin, with my wife, and there I lodged:

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Answered: I came into Gabaa, of Benjamin, with my wife, and there I lodged:

the Levite [heb] the man the Levite

Judges 19:15-28 And they turned into it to lodge there. And when they were come in, they sat in the street of the city, for no man would receive them to lodge. . . .

Context
The Decree of the Assembly
3(Nor were the children of Benjamin ignorant that the children of Israel were come up to Maspha.) And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was killed being asked, how so great a wickedness had been committed, 4Answered: I came into Gabaa, of Benjamin, with my wife, and there I lodged:5And behold the men of that city, in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.…
Cross References
Judges 20:3
(Nor were the children of Benjamin ignorant that the children of Israel were come up to Maspha.) And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was killed being asked, how so great a wickedness had been committed,

Judges 20:5
And behold the men of that city, in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.

Judges 20:3
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