New English Translation

Judges 19:19-23 New English Translation (NET)

19. We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”

20. The old man said, “Everything is just fine! I will take care of all your needs. But don’t spend the night in the town square.”

21. So he brought him to his house and fed the donkeys. They washed their feet and had a meal.

22. They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.”

23. The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!