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to dwell in; for until that day all their inheritance had not
yet fallen to them among the tribes of Yisrael.
2 And the children of Dan sent of their mishpacha five
men from their borders, men of valor, from Tzorah, and
from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and
they said to them, Go, search the land: who when they
came to Mount Efrayim, to the bayit of Michayahu, they
lodged there.
3 When they were by the bayit of Michayahu, they knew
the voice of the young man, the Lewi: and they turned in
there, and said to him, Who brought you here? And what
are you making in this place? And what have you here?
4 And he said to them, Michayahu did such and such with
me, and has hired me, and I am his kohen.
5 And they said to him, Ask counsel, we ask you, from
Elohim, that we may know whether our derech which we
go shall be prosperous.
6 And the kohen said to them, Go in shalom: before vuvh,
is your journey in which you go.
7 Then the five men departed, and came to Layish, and
saw the people that were in it, how they dwelt careless,
after the manner of the Tzidonians, quiet and secure; and
there was no civil authority in the land, that might put
them to shame in any wrong thing and they were far from
the Tzidonians, and had kept to themselves.
8 And they came to their brothers to Tzorah and Eshtaol:
and their brothers said to them, What say you?
9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them:
for we have seen the land, and, see, it is very tov: and are
you standing still? Be not lazy to go, and enter to possess
the land.
10 When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and
to a large land: for Elohim has given it into your hands; a
place where there is no want of anything that is in the
earth.
11 And there went from there from the mishpacha of the
Danites, out of Tzorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred
men appointed with weapons of war.
12 And they went up, and camped in Kiryath-Yearim, in
Yahudah: wherefore they called that place Machaneh-Dan
to this day: see, it is behind Kiryath-Yearim.
13 And they passed there to Mount Efrayim, and came to
the bayit of Michayahu.
14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the
country of Layish, and said to their brothers, Do you
know that there is among these houses an ephod, and
teraphim, and a graven image, and a molded image? Now
therefore consider what you have to do.
15 And they turned aside, and came to the bayit of the
young man the Lewi, even to the bayit of Michayahu, and
saluted him.
16 And the six hundred men appointed with their
weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood
by the entrance of the gate.
17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went
up, and came in there, and took the graven image, and the
ephod, and the teraphim, and the molded image: and the
kohen stood in the entrance of the gate with the six
hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
18 And these went into Michayahu's bayit, and fetched
the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the
molded image. Then said the kohen to them, What are
you doing?
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19 And they said to him, Hold your silence, lay your hand
upon your mouth, and go with us, and be to us an abba
and a kohen: is it better for you to be a kohen to the bayit
of one man, or that you be a kohen to a whole tribe and a
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20 And the kohen's lev was in simcha, and he took the
ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went
out in the midst of the people.
21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and
the cattle and the carriage before them.
22 And when they were a certain distance from the bayit
of Michayahu, the men that were in the houses near to
Michayahu's bayit were gathered together, and overtook
the children of Dan.
23 And they cried to the children of Dan. And they turned
their faces, and said to Michayahu, What’s wrong with
you, that you come with such a company?
24 And he said, You have taken away my elohim that I
made, and the kohen, and you are gone away: and what
have I left? And now you say to me, What bothers you?
25 And the children of Dan said to him, Let not your
voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows come upon
you, and you lose your chayim, with the chayim of your
household. 750
26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when
Michayahu saw that they were too strong for him, he
turned and went back to his bayit.
27 And they took the things that Michayahu had made,
and the kohen that he had, and came to Layish, to a
people that were in shalom and secure: and they smote
those people with the edge of the sword, and burned the
city with fire.
28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from
Tzidon, and they had no business with any man; and it
was in the valley that lies near Beth-Rechov. And they
built a city, and dwelt in it.
29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the
name of Dan their abba, who was born to Yisrael: but the
name of the city was Layish first. 751
30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and
Yahonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Menashsheh,
he and his sons were Kohanim to the tribe of Dan until
the day of the captivity of the land.
31 And they set them up Michayahu's graven image,
which he made, all the time that the Bayit of Elohim was
in Shiloh.
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And it came to pass in those days, when there was no
melech in Yisrael, that there was a certain Lewite
sojourning on the side of Mount Efrayim, who took to
him a concubine out of Beth-Lechem Yahudah.
2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and
went away from him to her abba's bayit to Beth-Lechem
Yahudah, and was there four whole months.
3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak
kindly to her, and to bring her again, having his eved with
him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into
her abba's bayit: and when the abba of the woman saw
him, he rejoiced to meet him.
4 And his abba-in-law, the woman's abba, retained him;
and he stayed with him three days: so they did eat and
drink, and lodged there.
5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose