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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.

A Levite and His Concubine

19 In those days Israel had no king.

Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim(A) took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.(B) But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her parents’ home in Bethlehem, Judah. After she had been there four months,

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