17 When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”

18 He answered him, “We’re traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I’m going to the house of the Lord.[a] No one has taken me into his home, 19 although there’s straw and feed for the donkeys, and I have bread and wine for me, my concubine, and the servant[b] with us. There is nothing we lack.”

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  1. 19:18 LXX reads to my house
  2. 19:19 Some Hb mss, Syr, Tg, Vg; other Hb mss read servants

17 When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”(A)

18 He answered, “We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the Lord.[a](B) No one has taken me in for the night. 19 We have both straw and fodder(C) for our donkeys(D) and bread and wine(E) for ourselves your servants—me, the woman and the young man with us. We don’t need anything.”

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  1. Judges 19:18 Hebrew, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum; Septuagint going home