24Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”
The term outrageous thing describes a godless, sacrilegious act that calls out for retributive justice (Judges 20:6; Genesis 34:7; Deuteronomy 22:21). And yet the alternative that the old man proposes is equally godless and sacrilegious.
24 Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”