But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold on his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
The writer called the Levite the "master" of the concubine in Judges 19:26 rather than her husband. Perhaps he did so because the Levite treated her as his property rather than as a person.