¹⁴ So they traveled on,^[a] and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.^{[b] 15} They stopped there and decided to spend the night^[c] in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.^[d]

¹⁶ But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field.^[e] The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)^[f]