(see Phinehas ben Eleazar for prophecy and significance) 8. There was a Levite (12) a man of a vulgar family, that belonged to t he tribe of Ephraim, and dwelt therein: this man married a wife from Bet hlehem, which is a place belongingto the tribe of AND it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, th at therewas a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, wh o took to hima concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. Corrupt men of Gibeah acted similarly to the men of Sodom. They desired to abuse a visiting Levite who was the guest of an old man. To forestal l the sin of sodomy the Levite's concubine was given to the men to be ab used. The concubine died as a result of
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