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Judges 5:16-18
Contemporary English Version

16 Reuben, why did you stay
    among your sheep pens?[a]
Was it to listen to shepherds
    whistling for their sheep?
No one could figure out
    why Reuben wouldn't come.[b]
17 The people of Gilead stayed
    across the Jordan.
Why did the tribe of Dan
    remain on their ships
and the tribe of Asher
stay along the coast
    near the harbors?

18 But soldiers of Zebulun
    and Naphtali
risked their lives
    to attack the enemy.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 5.16 sheep pens: Or “campfires.”
  2. 5.16 No … come: Or “The people of Reuben couldn't make up their minds.”
  3. 5.18 to attack the enemy: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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