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Judges 18:6-8
New English Translation
Judges 18:6-8
New English Translation
6 The priest said to them, “Go with confidence.[a] The Lord will be with you on your mission.”[b]
7 So the five men journeyed on[c] and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there[d] were living securely, like the Sidonians do,[e] undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way.[f] They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.[g] 8 When the Danites returned to their tribe[h] in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen[i] asked them, “How did it go?”[j]
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- Judges 18:6 tn Heb “in peace.”
- Judges 18:6 tn Heb “In front of the Lord is your way in which you are going.”
- Judges 18:7 tn Or “went.”
- Judges 18:7 tn Heb “who were in its midst.”
- Judges 18:7 tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”
- Judges 18:7 tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”
- Judges 18:7 tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (ʾaram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (ʾadam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.
- Judges 18:8 tn Heb “They came to their brothers.”
- Judges 18:8 tn Heb “brothers.”
- Judges 18:8 tn Heb “What you?”
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