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Sexual Immorality

19 In those days when Israel didn’t have a king, there was a Levite who lived in a remote area in the mountains of Ephraim. He took a woman from Bethlehem in Judah to be his concubine.[a] But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went to her father’s home, to Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

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  1. 19:1 A concubine   is considered a wife except she has fewer rights under the law.

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