◄ Judges 19:4 ►
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Good News Translation
The father insisted that he stay, and so he stayed for three days. The couple had their meals and spent the nights there.

New Revised Standard Version
His father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days; so they ate and drank, and he stayed there.

Contemporary English Version
and did not want him to leave. So the man stayed three days, eating and drinking with his father-in-law.

New American Bible
His father-in-law, the young woman’s father, urged him to stay, and so he spent three days eating and drinking and passing the night there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And embraced the man. And the son in law tarried in the house of his father in law three days, eating with him and drinking familiarly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And embraced the man. And the son in law tarried in the house of his father in law three days, eating with him and drinking familiarly.

Context
The Levite and His Concubine
…3And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her, and to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with him a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into her father's house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had seen him, he met him with joy, 4And embraced the man. And the son in law tarried in the house of his father in law three days, eating with him and drinking familiarly.5But on the fourth day, arising early in the morning, he desired to depart. But his father in law kept him, and said to him: Taste first a little bread, and strengthen thy stomach, and so thou shalt depart.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:55
And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at least, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart.

Judges 19:3
And her husband followed her, willing to be reconciled with her, and to speak kindly to her, and to bring her back with him, having with him a servant and two asses: and she received him, and brought him into her father's house. And when his father in law had heard this, and had seen him, he met him with joy,

Judges 19:5
But on the fourth day, arising early in the morning, he desired to depart. But his father in law kept him, and said to him: Taste first a little bread, and strengthen thy stomach, and so thou shalt depart.

Judges 19:3
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