Levite (standing in front of the assembly): ⁴ I arrived in Gibeah in Benjamin with my mistress. We only wanted to spend the night, ⁵ but the leaders of the city came to the house where we were staying and surrounded it, wanting to attack me. They intended to kill me, but they raped my mistress until she died. ⁶ So I took her body and cut her into pieces and sent her throughout our land that is Israel’s inheritance so that everyone could know what an outrage the men of Gibeah have committed!