As a bit of an experiment (/procrastination) I randomly clicked through until I arrived at some text. I ended up Judges 19, which is a bizarre story of a concub

As a bit of an experiment (/procrastination) I randomly clicked through until I arrived at some text. I ended up Judges 19, which is a bizarre story of a concubine (*) that cheats, returns to her parents, then her husband (after a four month delay) goes and finds her there. There's an odd narrative detour where the father in law continues to pressure the husband to stay, but eventually he leaves. While stopped at a strangers home on the journey back, some bandits want to rape him but his host offers his own virgin daughter and the concubine instead, so they rape and kill the concubine. When the protagonist finally gets home he cuts up his dead concubine's body and sends the parts across the land. This leads to a war (Judges 20) where tens of thousands of people were killed but I decided to stop at this point! https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/study-bible/books/judges/19/ https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/study-bible/books/judges... Wikipedia article on the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levite%27s_concubine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levite%27s_concubine (*) Searching afterwards, I found this is a somewhat rough translation of a role that doesn't exist in today's society: a lower status wife that hasn't been paid for (!) by her husband.