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Benjamites Violate a Levite’s Concubine

19 Now it happened in those days, when (A)there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

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Naomi’s Husband and Sons Die

Now it happened in the days (A)when the judges judged, that there was (B)a famine in the land. And a certain man (C)of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab [a]with his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they (D)came to the fields of Moab and remained there.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 1:1 Lit he, and

[a]But as for (A)you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
From (B)you One will go forth for Me to be (C)ruler in Israel.
[b]His goings forth are (D)from everlasting,
From the ancient days.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 5:2 Ch 5:1 in Heb
  2. Micah 5:2 Or His appearances are from long ago, from days of old

The Visit of the Magi

Now after Jesus was (A)born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of (B)Herod the king, behold, [a]magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 2:1 A class of wise men specializing in astronomy, astrology, and natural science