Danites Take the Levite and the Idol

1 ^aIn those days there was no king in Israel. ^bAnd in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.

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A Levite and His Concubine

1 ^oIn those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.