Judges 19:2
Good News Translation
But she became angry with him, went back to her father's house in Bethlehem, and stayed there four months.

New Revised Standard Version
But his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.

Contemporary English Version
but she was unfaithful and went back to live with her family in Bethlehem. Four months later

New American Bible
But his concubine spurned him and left him for her father’s house in Bethlehem of Judah, where she stayed for some four months.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she left him, and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.

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And she left him, and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.

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Leviticus 21:9 If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

Deuteronomy 22:21 They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

Ezekiel 16:28 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst played the harlot with them, even so thou wast not contented.

Context
The Levite and His Concubine
1There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda: 2And she left him, and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.3And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her, and to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with him a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into her father's house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had seen him, he met him with joy,…
Cross References
Judges 17:7
There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.

Judges 19:1
There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:

Judges 19:3
And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her, and to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with him a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into her father's house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had seen him, he met him with joy,

Judges 19:1
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