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.

And Micah said unto him, "Whence comest thou?" And the Levite answered him, "I am of Bethlehem Judah, and go to dwell where I may find a place."

And the Levite went and began to dwell with the man, and was unto him as dear as one of his own sons.

And Micah filled the hand of the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and continued in the house of Micah.

Then said Micah, "Now I am sure that the LORD will be good unto me, seeing I have a Levite to my priest."

And when they were come unto the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite, and turned in thither, and said unto him, "Who brought thee hither? And what makest thou in this place? And what hast thou here?"

And they turned thitherward and came to the house of the young man the Levite in the house of Micah, and saluted him peaceably.

It chanced in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite dwelling on the side of mount Ephraim, took to wife a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah:

And the Levite, the woman's husband that was slain, answered and said, "I came into Gibeah that is in Benjamin with my concubine to lodge all night.