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Chapter 19

The Levite from Ephraim. In those days, when there was no king in Israel,[a](A) there was a Levite residing in remote parts of the mountain region of Ephraim(B) who had taken for himself a concubine from Bethlehem of Judah. But his concubine spurned him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem of Judah, where she stayed for some four months.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:1 No king in Israel: see note on 17:6. The violent story that follows is offered as another example of the disorder that prevailed before the inauguration of the monarchy.