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And the priest said unto them, "Go in peace. Your way wherein ye go is before the LORD."
7
Then the five men departed and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they dwelt free from care, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure. And there was no magistrate in the land who might put them to shame in any thing, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no business with any man.
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And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brethren said unto them, "What say ye?"
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And they said, "Arise, that we may go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And are ye still? Be not slothful to go and to enter to possess the land.
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When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure and to a large land. For God hath given it into your hands, a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth."
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And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
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And they went up and pitched camp in Kirjathjearim in Judah. Therefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day; behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
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And they passed from thence unto Mount Ephraim and came unto the house of Micah.
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Then answered the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, "Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod and teraphim, and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore consider what ye have to do."
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And they turned in that direction, and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
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And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.