Judges 19:16-18

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁶ That evening, there was an old man who was returning home from his work in the fields. He was from the hill country of Ephraim but he was living in Gibeah at that time. ¹⁷ He saw the Levite traveller in the public place. He asked, ‘Where are you travelling to? Where have you come from?’

¹⁸ The Levite answered, ‘We are travelling from Bethlehem in Judah to the hill country of Ephraim, far from other towns. That is where I live. I needed to go to Bethlehem and now I am returning home.^[a] But no one has taken me into his house to sleep.