“His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Judges 19 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.