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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?”
Judges 18:6-8
New International Version
Judges 18:6-8
New International Version
6 The priest answered them, “Go in peace(A). Your journey has the Lord’s approval.”
7 So the five men(B) left and came to Laish,(C) where they saw that the people were living in safety, like the Sidonians, at peace and secure.(D) And since their land lacked nothing, they were prosperous.[a] Also, they lived a long way from the Sidonians(E) and had no relationship with anyone else.[b]
8 When they returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their fellow Danites asked them, “How did you find things?”
Footnotes
- Judges 18:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
- Judges 18:7 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts with the Arameans
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