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Judges 19:18
New English Translation
Judges 19:18
New English Translation
18 The Levite[a] said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home.[b] But no one has invited me into their home.
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- Judges 19:18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Judges 19:18 tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the Lord I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the Lord,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”
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