19:16a That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim,

Then an old man from the hills of the Ephraim clan,
-or-
Later that night an old man from the mountain region of Ephraim ⌊came back from his fields⌋ .

19:16b who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites),

who had settled in Gibeah with the Benjamin clan,
-or-
He had moved to live in Gibeah with the people of the clan of Benjamin.

19:16c came in from his work in the field.

arrived from working in the fields.
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He came in from working in his fields.

19:16a-c (reordered)

Then an old man came in from working in his fields. He lived in Gibeah among the people of the clan of Benjamin, but he was an Ephraim clan person from the hills of Ephraim.

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