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17 When he saw the travelers camped in the square, he asked them where they were from and where they were going.

18 “We’re on the way home from Bethlehem, in Judah,” the man replied. “I live on the far edge of the Ephraim hill country, near Shiloh. But no one has taken us in for the night, 19 even though we have fodder for our donkeys and plenty of food and wine for ourselves.”

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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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Footnotes

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