17 When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”

18 He answered him, “We’re traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I’m going to the house of the Lord.[a] No one has taken me into his home, 19 although there’s straw and feed for the donkeys, and I have bread and wine for me, my concubine, and the servant[b] with us. There is nothing we lack.”

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Footnotes

  1. 19:18 LXX reads to my house
  2. 19:19 Some Hb mss, Syr, Tg, Vg; other Hb mss read servants

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