Judges 19:1-3

Contemporary English Version

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, ² but she was unfaithful and went back to live with her family in Bethlehem.

Four months later ³ her husband decided to try and talk her into coming back. So he went to Bethlehem, taking along a servant and two donkeys. He talked with his wife, and she invited him into her family's home. Her father was glad to see him