Judges 19:1-3
New American Standard Bible
A Levite’s Concubine Raped and Killed
19 Now it came about in those days, when (A)there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite [a]staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah. 2 But his concubine [b]found him repugnant, and she left him and went to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah, and remained there for a period of four months. 3 Then her husband set out and went after her to (B)speak [c]gently to her in order to bring her back, [d]taking with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house, and when the girl’s father saw him, he was glad to meet him.
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- Judges 19:1 Or sojourning
- Judges 19:2 Or was unfaithful to him (a Hebrew homonym); LXX became angry at him
- Judges 19:3 Lit to her heart
- Judges 19:3 Lit and
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