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In those days Israel didn’t have a king. Everyone did whatever he considered right.

There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. (Bethlehem belongs to the family of Judah.) He was a Levite but was living in Bethlehem. This man left Bethlehem in Judah to live wherever he could find a place. He came to Micah’s house in the mountains of Ephraim to carry on his work.

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In those days Israel had no king;(A) everyone did as they saw fit.(B)

A young Levite(C) from Bethlehem in Judah,(D) who had been living within the clan of Judah, left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way[a] he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:8 Or To carry on his profession