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The Danites Settle in Laish

Judges 18:8

In 11 translations

BSB
When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
KJV
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
WEB
They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
ASV
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
LSV
And they come to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers say to them, “What [did] you [find]?”
YLT
And they come in unto their brethren, at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren say to them, 'What — ye?'
DBY
— And they came to their brethren at Zoreah and Eshtaol. And their brethren said to them, What [say] ye?
DRC
And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done? to whom they answered:
GNV
So they came againe vnto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren saide vnto them, What haue ye done?
JPS
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brethren said unto them: 'What say ye?'
LXXE
And the five men came to their brethren to Saraa and Esthaol, and said to their brethren, Why sit ye here idle?

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ אֶל־אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם צָרְעָ֖ה וְאֶשְׁתָּאֹ֑ל וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם אֲחֵיהֶ֖ם מָ֥ה אַתֶּֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἦλθον οἱ πέντε ἄνδρες πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτῶν εἰς Σαραὰ καὶ Ἐσθαὸλ, καὶ εἶπον τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς αὐτῶν, τί ὑμεῖς κάθησθε;

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  • Judges 18:2So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and…
  • Judges 18:11So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.
  • Judges 16:31Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.
  • Judges 13:2Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

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