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And the priest saith to them, `Go in peace; over-against Jehovah [is] your way in which ye go.'
7
And the five men go, and come in to Laish, and see the people which [is] in its midst, dwelling confidently, according to the custom of Zidonians, quiet and confident; and there is none putting to shame in the land in [any] thing, possessing restraint, and they [are] far off from the Zidonians, and have no word with [any] man.
8
And they come in unto their brethren, at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren say to them, `What -- ye?'
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And they say, `Rise, and we go up against them, for we have seen the land, and lo, very good; and ye are keeping silent! be not slothful to go -- to enter to possess the land.
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When ye go, ye come in unto a people confident, and the land [is] large on both hands, for God hath given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything which [is] in the land.'
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And there journey thence, of the family of the Danite, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, six hundred men girded with weapons of war.
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And they go up and encamp in Kirjath-Jearim, in Judah, therefore they have called that place, `Camp of Dan,' till this day; lo, behind Kirjath-Jearim.
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And they pass over thence [to] the hill-country of Ephraim, and come in unto the house of Micah.
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And the five men, those going to traverse the land of Laish, answer and say unto their brethren, `Have ye known that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and graven image, and molten image? and now, know what ye do.'
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And they turn aside thither, and come in unto the house of the young man the Levite, the house of Micah, and ask of him of welfare, --
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(and the six hundred men girded with their weapons of war, who [are] of the sons of Dan, are standing at the opening of the gate), --