Section 19:1-21

A Levite’s concubine ran away

19:1a Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel,

At that time there was no king in Israel.
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When these things took place, the people of Israel had no king.

19:1b a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim

There was a Levite man who had settled far off in the hills of the Ephraim clan.
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A man from the clan of Levi lived in the mountains of Ephraim, far from other people.

19:1c took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

He married a slave wife from Bethlehem in Judah.
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He took a woman to be his wife from the town of Bethlehem in the land of Judah.

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