17 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?” 18 He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, for I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to [a]my house, and no man will take me into his house. 19 Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, [b]your maidservant, and (A)the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 19:18 Heb the house of the Lord, cf v 29
  2. Judges 19:19 I.e. my concubine