19 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living temporarily in the most remote part of the hill district of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine [of inferior status than a wife] from Bethlehem in Judah.

² And his concubine was untrue to him and went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem of Judah and stayed there the space of four months.