1. IN THOSE days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living temporarily in the most remote part of the hill district of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine [of inferior status than a wife] from Bethlehem in Judah.
2. And his concubine was untrue to him and went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem of Judah and stayed there the space of four months.