Judges 19:17-19

Expanded Bible

¹⁷ He saw the traveler in the public square and asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”

¹⁸ The Levite answered, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to my home in a remote area of the ·mountains [hill country] of Ephraim. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah, but now I am going to the ·Holy Tent [^LHouse] of the Lord [^Cprobably the shrine at Shiloh; 18:31; Josh. 18:1].^[a] No one has invited me to stay in his house. ¹⁹ We already have straw and food for our donkeys and bread and wine for me, ·the young woman [^Lyour maidservant], and my ·servant [^Lthe young man with your servants; ^Cpolitely referring to himself and his servants as the old man’s servants]. We don’t need anything.”