Judges 19:2-20

²But she started to sleep with other men also. Then she left him and returned to her father's house in Bethlehem. She stayed there for four months.

³Then her husband took his servant and two donkeys and went to Bethlehem. He went to ask her to come back to live with him again. When he arrived at her father's house, she invited him to come in. Her father was happy to see him.

⁴The woman's father asked him to stay. So he stayed there for three days. During that time he ate and drank and slept there.

⁵On the fourth day, they all got up early in the morning. The man from the tribe of Levi was preparing to leave, but the woman's father said to him, “Eat something before you go.”

⁶So the two men sat down to eat and drink together. Then the woman's father said to him, “Please stay another night. Relax/Rest and have a joyful time.”

⁷The man from the tribe of Levi wanted to leave, but the woman's father requested him to stay one more night. So he stayed again that night.

⁸On the fifth day, the man got up early and prepared to leave. But the woman's father said to him again, “Have something to eat. Wait until this afternoon, and then leave.” So the two men ate together.

⁹In the afternoon, when the man from the tribe of Levi and his slave wife and his servant got up to leave, the woman's father said, “It will soon be dark. The day is almost over. Stay here tonight and have a good/joyful time. Tomorrow morning you can get up early and leave for your home.”

¹⁰But the man from the tribe of Levi did not want to stay for another night. He put saddles on his two donkeys, and started to go with his slave wife and his servant toward Jebus city, which is now named Jerusalem.

¹¹Late in the afternoon, they came near to Jebus. The servant said to his master, “We should stop in this city where the Jebus people-group live, and stay here tonight.”

¹²But his master said, “No, it would not be good for us to stay here where foreign people live. There are no Israeli people here. We will go on to Gibeah city.”

¹³He said to his servant, “Let's go. It is not far to Gibeah. We can go there, or we can go a bit further to Ramah. We can stay in one of those two cities tonight.”

¹⁴So they continued walking. When they came near Gibeah, where people from the tribe of Benjamin live, the sun was setting.

¹⁵They stopped to stay there that night. They went to the public square of that city and sat down. But no one who passed by invited them to stay in their house for that night.

¹⁶Finally, in the evening, an old man came by. He had been working in the fields. He was from the hilly area of the tribe of Ephraim, but at that time he was living in Gibeah.

¹⁷He realized that the man from the tribe of Levi was only traveling and did not have a home in that city. So he asked the man, “Where have you come from? And where are you going?”

¹⁸He replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem to my home in the hilly area where people of the tribe of Ephraim live. I went from there to Bethlehem, but now we are going to Shiloh where Yahweh's Sacred tent (OR, my house) is. No one here has invited us to stay in their house tonight.

¹⁹We have straw and food for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the young woman and my servant. We do not need anything else.”

²⁰The old man said, “I wish that things will go well for you, but I would like to provide what you need. Do not stay here in the square tonight.”