Then the five men departed and came to (A)Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, (B)quiet and unsuspecting, lacking[a] nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how (C)they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. And when they came to their brothers at (D)Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?” They said, (E)“Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. (F)And will you do nothing? (G)Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 18:7 Compare 18:10; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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