^19:4His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there. ^19:5On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave.¹¹ But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have a bite to eat for some energy,¹² then you can go.” ^19:6So the two of them sat down and had a meal together.¹³ Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Why not stay another night and have a good time!”¹⁴^19:7When the man got ready to leave,¹⁵ his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night.¹⁶^19:8He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said, “Get some energy.¹⁷ Wait until later in the day to leave!”¹⁸ So they ate a meal together. ^19:9When the man got ready to leave¹⁹ with his concubine and his servant,²⁰ his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look! The day is almost over!²¹ Stay another night! Since the day is over,²² stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.”²³^19:10But the man did not want to stay another night. He left²⁴ and traveled as far as²⁵ Jebus (that is, Jerusalem).²⁶ He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.²⁷

^19:11When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late²⁸ and the servant²⁹ said to his master, “Come on, let’s stop at³⁰ this Jebusite city and spend the night in it.” ^19:12But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live.³¹ We will travel on to Gibeah.” ^19:13He said to his servant,³² “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns³³ and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.” ^19:14So they traveled on,³⁴ and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.³⁵^19:15They stopped there and decided to spend the night³⁶ in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.³⁷

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Footnotes

11 Heb “and he arose to go.”
12 Heb “Sustain your heart [with] a bit of food.”
13 Heb “And they sat and ate, the two of them together, and they drank.”
14 Heb “Be willing and spend the night so that your heart might be good.”
15 Heb “and the man arose to go.”
16 Heb “his father-in-law persuaded him and he again spent the night there.”
17 Heb “Sustain your heart.” He is once more inviting him to stay for a meal.
18 Heb “Wait until the declining of the day.”
19 Heb “the man arose to go.”
20 Or “young man.”
21 Heb “the day is sinking to become evening.”
22 Or “declining.”
23 Heb “for your way and go to your tent.”
24 Heb “and he arose and went.”
25 Heb “to the front of.”
26 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
27 Some ancient witnesses add “and his servant.”
28 Heb “and the day was descending greatly.”
29 Or “young man.”
30 Heb “turn aside” (also in the following verse).
31 Heb “who are not from the sons of Israel.”
32 Or “young man.”
33 Heb “we will enter one of the places.”
34 Heb “and they passed by and went.”
35 Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”
36 Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”
37 Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”