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Bible in Basic English
Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.
New American Standard Bible
Now there was a young man from
King James Version
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Holman Bible
There was a young man, a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who resided within the clan of Judah.
International Standard Version
A young male descendant of Levi happened to be visiting there from Bethlehem in the territory of Judah.
A Conservative Version
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
American Standard Version
And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
Amplified
Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, from the family [of the tribe] of Judah, who was a
Darby Translation
Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
Julia Smith Translation
And there will be a youth from the House of Bread, of Judah, from the families of Judah, and he a Levite, and he sojourned there.
King James 2000
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Lexham Expanded Bible
There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, from the clan of Judah; he [was] a Levite and [was] dwelling as a foreigner there.
Modern King James verseion
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah of the family of Judah, and he was a Levite. And he stayed there.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, and out of the kindreds of Judah: which young man was a Levite and sojourned there.
NET Bible
There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.
New Heart English Bible
There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
The Emphasized Bible
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, of the family of Judah, - he, being a Levite, and, he, being a sojourner there.
Webster
And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
World English Bible
There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
Youngs Literal Translation
And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he is a Levite, and he is a sojourner there.
Themes
Bethlehem » A city » A city southwest of jerusalem » And beth-lehem-judah
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 17:7
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Context Readings
Micah Hires A Professional
6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him. 7 Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place. 8 And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.
Cross References
Ruth 1:1-2
Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.
Micah 5:2
And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
Matthew 2:1
Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Matthew 2:5-6
And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet,
Genesis 35:19
So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).
Joshua 19:15
And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.
Judges 19:1-2
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.