¹⁴ To meet the thirsty brought water have Inhabitants of the land of Tema, With his bread they came before a fugitive.

¹⁵ Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

¹⁹ Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.

⁴ And Gideon cometh in unto the Jordan, passing over, he and the three hundred men who `are' with him -- wearied, and pursuing,

⁵ and he saith to the men of Succoth, `Give, I pray you, cakes of bread to the people who `are' at my feet, for they `are' wearied, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna kings of Midian.'

⁶ And the heads of Succoth say, `Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we give to thy host bread?'

⁷ And Gideon saith, `Therefore -- in Jehovah's giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand -- I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments.'

⁸ And he goeth up thence `to' Penuel, and speaketh unto them thus; and the men of Penuel answer him as the men of Succoth answered.

³⁰ Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

²¹ If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.

³ Bring ye in counsel, do judgment, Make as night thy shadow in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, the wanderer reveal not.

⁴ Sojourn in thee do My outcasts, O Moab, Be a secret hiding-place to them, From the face of a destroyer, For ceased hath the extortioner, Finished hath been a destroyer, Consumed the treaders down out of the land.

²⁰ I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

⁹ hospitable to one another, without murmuring;