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The Book of Judges, Chapter 18, Verse 8

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Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.
King James Version
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?
American Standard Version
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?
New English Translation
When the Danites returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them,“How did it go?”
World English Bible
They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, "What do you say?"
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And they said, Arise, that we may 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 to possess the land.
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When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.
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And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
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And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, [it is] behind Kirjathjearim.
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And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
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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 know 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 thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
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And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which [were] of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
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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 priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.
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And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?