⁶ So the two men sat down and ate and drank together. Then the woman's father told him, “Please spend the night and enjoy yourself.”

⁷ The Levite got up to go, but the father urged him to stay, so he spent another night there. ⁸ Early in the morning of the fifth day he started to leave, but the woman's father said, “Eat something, please. Wait until later in the day.” So the two men ate together.