²³ Then Ehud went out to the porch^[a]; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

²⁴ After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, “He must be relieving himself^(A) in the inner room of the palace.” ²⁵ They waited to the point of embarrassment,^(B) but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.