Judges 19:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ When he had entered his house, he took a knife, and grasping his concubine he cut her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ And when he came into his house, he took a knife, and took hold of his dead concubine and divided her [body] limb by limb into twelve pieces and sent her [body] throughout all the territory of Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.

Common English Bible

²⁹ When he got home, he picked up a knife, took his secondary wife, and chopped her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces. Then he sent them into all the areas of Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ And when he had arrived, he took up a sword, and he cut into pieces the dead body of his wife, with her bones, into twelve parts. And he sent the pieces into all the parts of Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ And when he was come home he took a sword, and divided the dead body of his wife with her bones into twelve parts: and sent the pieces into all the borders of Israel.

Judges 19:29 Cross References

Romans 10:2

For I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on knowledge.

1 Samuel 11:7

He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one.