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The Kohen said to them, Go in shalom: before the LORD is your way wherein you go.
7
Then the five men departed, and came to Layish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Tzidonim, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Tzidonim, and had no dealings with any man.
8
They came to their brothers to Tzor`ah and Eshta'ol: and their brothers said to them, What [say] you?
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They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
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When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the eretz.
11
There set forth from there of the family of the Dani, out of Tzor`ah and out of Eshta'ol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
12
They went up, and encamped in Kiryat-Ye`arim, in Yehudah: therefore they called that place Machane-Dan, to this day; behold, it is behind Kiryat-Ye`arim.
13
They passed there to the hill-country of Efrayim, and came to the house of Mikhah.
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Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Layish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an efod, and terafim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
15
They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Mikhah, and asked him of his welfare.
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The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.