^{1 Ref} It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

^{2 Ref} His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.