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When he had come into his house, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
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Verse 29. Israel. One part, like an epistle, written with blood, to every tribe. Salien.—Some, without reason, think that Benjamin was neglected: but they were to be summoned, to bring their guilty brethren ( Calmet.) to condign punishment, or to share in their fate, as accomplices of the crime. Bible.—The state of the republic authorized the Levite to take this extraordinary method of rousing all to a sense of horror for what had been done. Calmet.—His brethren, dispersed through the country, would no doubt take part in his grief.
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