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A Woman Is Murdered

19 Before kings ruled Israel, a Levite[a] was living deep in the hill country of the Ephraim tribe. He married[b] a woman from Bethlehem in Judah, but she was unfaithful and went back to live with her family in Bethlehem.

Four months later

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Footnotes

  1. 19.1 a Levite: Someone from the Levi tribe, which had no tribal lands of its own.
  2. 19.1 married: See the note at 8.31.

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