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Rashi on the Former Prophets

CC BY · The Metsudah Tanach series (Metsudah Publications, Lakewood, NJ)
Chapter 19

Judges 19

His concubine strayed away from him She strayed away from his home to the outside. The word זְנוּת, "promiscuity," always denotes departure—"One who departs to the outside," who leaves her husband and loves another.

Give your assent, and remain overnight. Tonight.

Has waned. The sun [has waned] from full strength, and has begun setting.
It is the time of day for encamping. The time when all travellers turn in to encamp indoors.

To Giv'oh. Giv'oh of Binyomin.

We will spend the night. As in וְלַנְנוּ. The period punctuating the נ serves as a replacement for a second נ.

To the Sanctuary of Adonoy. I am going to Shiloh.

And fed produce to the donkeys. He gave produce to the donkeys. He fed produce, "aprovender" in old French.

We want to have relations with him to sodomize him.

There was no answer, for she was dead.

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