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 And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to ^[a]the house of Yahweh, and no man is taking 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.”