Judges 19:17-19

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷ He noticed that the Levite was just in town to spend the night. “Where are you going?” the old man asked. “Where did you come from?”

¹⁸ “We've come from Bethlehem in Judah,” the Levite answered. “We went there on a visit. Now we're going to the place where the Lord is worshiped, and later we will return to our home in the hill country of Ephraim. But no one here will let us spend the night^[a] in their home. ¹⁹ We brought food for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves, so we don't need anything except a place to sleep.”