13. He said, “Come on. Let’s try to make it to Gibeah or Ramah so we can spend the night in one of those cities.”
14. So they went on. The sun went down as they came near Gibeah, which belongs to the tribe of Benjamin.
15. They stopped there to spend the night. They came to the public square of the city and sat down, but no one invited them home to spend the night.
16. Finally, in the evening an old man came in from his work in the fields. His home was in the mountains of Ephraim, but now he was living in Gibeah. (The people of Gibeah were from the tribe of Benjamin.)
17. He saw the traveler in the public square and asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
18. The Levite answered, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to my home in the mountains of Ephraim. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah, but now I am going to the Holy Tent of the Lord. No one has invited me to stay in his house.
19. We already have straw and food for our donkeys and bread and wine for me, the young woman, and my servant. We don’t need anything.”