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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

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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