Judges 19
1 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
Hiche phatlai hi Israelten leng ananei masangu chu ahi. Ephraim thinglhang gamkun’ah Levi mikhat anachengin ahi. Nikhat hi aman Judah gam Bethlehem akon in numei khat athaikem dingin ahin kipuijin ahi.
2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.
Ahinlah amanu hitoh akina-lhonin ahileh Bethlehem ma apa in'ah ana kile kittan ahi. Lha li alhin jouvin,
3 Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
Ajipa chu Bethlehem jon dingin akipat doh in amanu chu gajol lungdam’a hin kile puikit agot ahi. Aman sangan kopkhat toh alhachapa chu ana kipuijin ahi. Ama ajinu pa in agalhun chun ajinu pa chun ngailutna neitah in anasangin ahi.
4 His father-in-law, the young lady’s father, kept him there; and he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank, and stayed there.
Anupa pachun nichomkhat beh umdingin ana ngehin ahi. Hijeh chun, ama chu nithum anichongin, aneuvin, adonnun chuleh ajan geh un ahi.
5 On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning, and he rose up to depart. The young lady’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.”
Ni li channi chun amapa chu matah in athouvin cheding akigotan, ahinla anupa pachun amapa komma chun “Nache kah un bu themkhat beh gahne kitnun,” atin ahi.
6 So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”
Hijeh chun amani jong atoukit lhonnin themkhat anelhon tan ahi. Hijouchun numeinu pachun hiti hin ahin seikit in, “Jankhat beh gehkit inlang kicholdo kit’un ati.”
7 The man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.
Levi pachu akipatdoh in achegotan ahileh anupa pan aum kit nadiuvin angeh teitei jengin ahileh ajona in anom’in jankhat ageh kittai.
8 He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines;” and they both ate.
Ni nga channin amachu matah in athouvin chedingin akigotai, ahin numeinu pachun, “Nehthei themkhat beh nenlang nilhah lamleh chenauvin nate” tin ahin seikit’in ahi. Hichun amaho chun nehkhomna aneikit’un ahi.
9 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”
Hichejou chun amapa le athaikemnu chuleh alhachapa chu che dingin akigo tauvin ahi, anupapan aseijin, “Ven tuhi nilhah lang hiding ahitai, tujan gehkit inlang nomtah in kicholdon lang jing tengleh matah in athouvin natin na-inlam u jon tauvin nate,” ati.
10 But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and went near Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him.
Ahinlah tuphat vang'in chetei agotan ahi. Hijeh chun asangan teni leh athaikemnu chu akipuijin Jebus (Hichu Jerusalem) lang ahin jontauvin ahi.
11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, “Please come and let’s enter into this city of the Jebusites, and stay in it.”
Jebus anaiphat’in agei thimlheh tan alhachapa chun akom’ah chun “Jebus khopia hin kinga pa uhitin, jan geh taote” ati.
12 His master said to him, “We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.”
Apakaipan “Hithei ponte Israel mi um nalou gamchom mite khopia igeh theilou diu ahi,” hiche sang chun Gibeah lam ana jonsuh taohite.
13 He said to his servant, “Come and let’s draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.”
Hungin Gibeah ahilouleh Ramah lhuntei go uhitin hiche khopiho khatpen pennahin gehnao hite” ati.
14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
Hitichun achetaove. Gibeah agalhun uchun nisalhum ding kon ahitai, Gibeah chu Benjamin gamsunga khopi khat ahi.
15 They went over there, to go in to stay in Gibeah. He went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no one who took them into his house to stay.
Hilai mun achun akinga uvin jan-geh ding in akigo tauvin ahi. Koiman ainna lhunsah dinga akoulou jeh uchun hiche khopi lamlen khatna chun akicholnga tauvin ahi.
16 Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Hiche janchun tehse alouva anatohna akon a-inlam hinjonkhat aumin ahi. Amachu Ephraim thinglhang akonna Gibeah a hung kichaolut ahin, hiche khopia chenghohi Benjamin phungmi ahiuve.
17 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
Amaho chu khopi lamsom’a anatou chu amu phatnin “Hoiya hungkon hoilang jonding nahiuvam?” tin anadongin ahi.
18 He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.
Amapan adonbutnin, “Keiho hi Judah gam Bethlehem’a konna Ephraim thinglhang gamgilla um ka in-mun u jonding kahiuve. Ahinla koiman a-in na lhungding in eikou pouvin ahi.
19 Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”
Keihon kangaichat diu jouse kanei naove, sangan nehding changpol kaneijun, keiho nehding changlhah le theitui lhingset’in kanei naovin ahi” atiuve.
20 The old man said, “Peace be to you! Just let me supply all your needs, but don’t sleep in the street.”
Tehsepu chun, “Kei kommah geh tauvin, keiman nangaichat diu jouse nape naovinge, amavang hiche lamsom’a vang hin jan-geh hihbeh un,” ati.
21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. Then they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
Hiti chun a-in na apuijin asangan teni jong chu avahtan ahi. Amahon akeng akisilluva an aneh uva adonjou phat’un,
22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”
Nomsatah a agah umpet laitah un, khopi sunga konchun miphalou honkhat’in inchu ahin umkhum un, kotchu ahin chum’un tehsepu chu ahinsap thouvin, “na in na lhungpa chu hinpui doh in keihon numei bolla kaboldiu ahi” atiuvin ahi.
23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.
Tehsepu chu amaho to kihou dingin apotdoh in aga kihoupin “Ahipoi sopite ho, hitobang thilse chu bolpou hite, ajeh chu amapahi ka-in na lhung kamaljin ahibouve, chutobang thilmelse tah chu bolpoute,
24 Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don’t do any such folly.”
Veuvin, kachanu nungah thengtah khat leh hiche mipa thaikemnu hi hinpedoh inge nalo lo lotauvin, ahinla hiche mipa chunga vang hin chutobang thilmelse chu bol hihbeh un” ati.
25 But the men wouldn’t listen to him; so the man grabbed his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning. When the day began to dawn, they let her go.
Ahinlah amahon angaideh pouvin ahi. Hijeh chun Levi pachun athaikemnu chu kotpamma asondoh in ahileh, khopi mitechun amanu chu khovah lhah tokah in kichepnan aneitauvin ahi. Khovah then then chun amanu chu alhakang bep’un ahi.
26 Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, until it was light.
Khovah lhahchun amanu chu ajipa lhunna a chun ahung kilen kotbul aphahchun alhulhop tan khovah lhah geijin ana kijamtan ahi.
27 Her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine had fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
Ajipan gahpot dinga kotchu ahin honleh athaikemnu chu kotbulla anakijam jengin akhut teni chu tolla anakiphatho jengin ahi.
28 He said to her, “Get up, and let’s get going!” but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.
Aman “thouvin chetate” atileh adonbut tapon ahi. Hitichun atahsa chu sangan chungah ajamin ain geijin apoluttai.
29 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.
Ain alhunphatnin, chemkhat alan athaikemnu hub oh somle bohni ason bohkhat cheh chu Israel gampumpia phungkhat cheh chu athot’in ahi.
30 It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
Hiche mujouse chun, “Israelten Egypt ahin dalhah uva pat tuni chan geijin hitobang thilmelse hi sohkha hih laijin ahi chule mujong akimu kha hih laiye, hichepi hi gel temun, tuahi ipi ibolluva i-ilodiu hitam? Koiham aseithei ding’ah?” akiti tauvin ahi.
