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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmits, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we

encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.

The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.

Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

It is day 95, and we're reading from Judges chapter 19, 20, and 21. We're finishing up the book of judges, as I mentioned yesterday the last couple days. We are, gosh, it gets worse and worse. The whole story gets so much worse and so much worse. So keep that in mind. We're also praying Psalm 148 because we definitely need some prayers on a day like today with the awful stories that we're about to expose ourselves to. Wow, am I building this up enough? Hopefully not too much, not overselling the horror, the terrible things that are about to happen. But it's part of the story. It's part of our story. The Bible translation we're reading today is from the Revised Standard Version 2nd Catholic Edition. As always, I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension to download your Bible in a year reading plan. You can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And if you did and printed it out, you'd be on the third page. You'd be starting a whole new leaf, whole new chapter. I guess, you know, and tomorrow we're starting a whole new book for crying out loud. It's amazing. If you haven't yet, subscribe to this app. I do not know you, man. But just subscribe,

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Because it's day 95 and we're trucking right along, Judges 19, 20, and 21 praying Psalm 148.

The Book of Judges, Chapter 19, the Levites concubine.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote

parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem and

Judah.

And his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah,

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