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In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
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Verse 1. Ephraim. Some think at Silo, to which place, he says, he was going, (verse 18,) though it might be only out of devotion. Calmet.—A wife. Hebrew “a concubine.” Septuagint joins both together, “he took a harlot to wife.” Bible.
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