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 territory of Israel.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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. (Haydock)
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.
