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So the two men sat and ate and drank together; and the girl’s father said to the man, ‘Why not spend the night and enjoy yourself?’ When the man got up to go, his father-in-law kept urging him until he spent the night there again. On the fifth day he got up early in the morning to leave; and the girl’s father said, ‘Fortify yourself.’ So they lingered[a] until the day declined, and the two of them ate and drank.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 19:8 Cn: Heb Linger
  2. Judges 19:8 Gk: Heb lacks and drank

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