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And they said to him, Inquire, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way on which we go shall be prosperous.
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And the priest said to them, Go in peace: before Jehovah is your way on which ye go.
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And the five men departed, and came to Laish; and they saw the people that were therein, dwelling securely, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and no one was in the land who possessed authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had nothing to do with [any] man.
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-- And they came to their brethren at Zoreah and Eshtaol. And their brethren said to them, What [say] ye?
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And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good; and ye are still! Be not slothful to go, to enter to take possession of the land.
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When ye go in, ye shall come to a people secure, and the land is spacious in every direction; for God has given it into your hands; [it is] a place where there is no want of anything that is on the earth.
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And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zoreah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girded with weapons of war.
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And they went up and encamped in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah; therefore they call that place Mahaneh-Dan to this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim.
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And they passed thence to mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
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Then the five men that had gone to spy out the country of Laish spoke and said to their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? And now ye know what to do.
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And they turned thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, the house of Micah, and inquired after his welfare.