A Levite and His Concubine

19 In those days Israel had no king.

Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim^(A) took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.^(B)

² But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her parents’ home in Bethlehem, Judah. After she had been there four months,