Judges 17:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. Of the family of Judah - The word family may be taken here for tribe; or the young man might have been of the tribe of Judah by his mother, and of the tribe of Levi by his father, for he is called here a Levite; and it is probable that he might have officiated at Shiloh, in the Levitical office. A Levite might marry into any other tribe, providing the woman was not an heiress.