be sleeping together on a mat [AB, Hlt, MGC, NICNT, NIGTC, TG], or on a raised platform at one end of the house [TNTC]. The father could not get up to answer the door or get bread without disturbing the whole family [AB, MGC, Su, TNTC, WBC]. 2. The children were in their own bed apart from their father’s bed [Arn, Lns, NAC, NTC; possibly CEV, GW, HCSB, NASB, NCV, NET, NLT, REB, TEV]. All were not sleeping in the same bed since μετʼ ἐμοῦ ‘with me’ means ‘in company with me’, the father also being