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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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Footnotes

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

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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