Judges 19:12-16

19:12 But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. ¹  We will travel on to Gibeah.” 19:13 He said to his servant, ²  “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns ³  and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.” 19:14 So they traveled on, ⁴  and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. ⁵  19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night ⁶  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ⁷ 

19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. ⁸  The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) ⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “who are not from the sons of Israel.”

² tn Or “young man.”

³ tn Heb “we will enter one of the places.”

⁴ tn Heb “and they passed by and went.”

⁵ tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”

⁶ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

⁷ tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

⁸ tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”

⁹ tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”