1
Now it came about in thosedays, when there was noking in Israel, that there was a certainLevitestaying in the remotepart of the hillcountry of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.
2
But his concubineplayed the harlotagainst him, and she went away from him to her father'shouse in Bethlehem in Judah, and was there for a period of fourmonths.