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In those days there was no king in Israel; each one did that which was right in his own eyes.

¶ And there was a young man out of Bethlehem of Judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

And the man had departed out of the city from Bethlehem of Judah to sojourn where he could find a place, and he came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah as he journeyed.

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In those days Israel had no king;(A) everyone did as they saw fit.(B)

A young Levite(C) from Bethlehem in Judah,(D) who had been living within the clan of Judah, left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way[a] he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:8 Or To carry on his profession