These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Judges 18
Tanakh 31 verses
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In those days there was no in ; and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day there had nothing been allotted unto them among the tribes of for an inheritance.
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- 2 And the children of sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them: ‘Go, search the land’; and they came to the hill-country of , unto the house of , and lodged there.
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When they were by the house of , they knew the voice of the young man the ; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him: ‘Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?’
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- 4 And he said unto them: ‘Thus and thus hath dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his .’
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And they said unto him: ‘Ask counsel, we pray thee, of , that we may whether our way which we are going shall be prosperous.’
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- 6 And the said unto them: ‘Go in ; before is your way wherein ye go.’
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Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in any thing, and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no dealings 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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- 9 And they said: ‘Arise, and let us 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 in to possess the land.
- 10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and the land is large; for hath given it into your hand; a place where there is no want; it hath every thing that is in the earth.’
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And there set forth from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
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And they went up, and encamped in Kiriath-jearim, in ; wherefore that place was called Mahaneh-dan unto this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath-jearim.
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And they passed thence unto the hill-country of , and came unto the house of .
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Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren: ‘Do ye 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 aside thither, and came to the house of the young man the , even unto the house of , and asked him of his welfare.
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And the six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of , stood by the entrance of the gate.
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- 17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
- 18 And when these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the graven image of the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the said unto them: ‘What do ye?’
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And they said unto him: ‘Hold thy , lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a ; is it better for thee to be unto the house of one man, or to be unto a tribe and a family in ?’
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And the priest’s was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
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- 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the goods before them.
- 22 When they were a good way from the house of , the men that were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of .
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And they cried unto the children of . And they turned their faces, and said unto : ‘What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?’
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- 24 And he said: ‘Ye have taken away my which I made, and the , and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me: What aileth thee?’
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And the children of said unto him: ‘Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.’
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- 26 And the children of went their way; and when saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
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And they took that which had made, and the whom he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.
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- 28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built the city, and dwelt therein.
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And they called the of the city , after the of their father, who was born unto ; howbeit the of the city was Laish at the first.
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- 30 And the children of set up for themselves the graven image; and , the son of Gershom, the son of , he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
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So they set them up Micah’s graven image which he made, all the time that the house of was in .
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