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19 In those days there was no king in Israel.

A Depraved Levite and a Depraved City

There was a certain Levite living in a remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a woman from Bethlehem of Judah as a concubine. But his concubine committed adultery or prostitution against him[a] and left him in order to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem of Judah. She remained there four months.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 19:2 Or, following the Greek Old Testament, which reads the word translated adultery or prostitution as a different Hebrew word, his concubine became angry with him