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And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, look, it is very good: and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.

And they said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

And the sons of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

And the sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

And they turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat down in the street of the city; for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your female slave, and for the attendant that is with your slaves: there is no want of anything.

And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Geba of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

And the sons of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the sons of Benjamin? And Yahweh said, Judah [shall go up] first.

And the sons of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.

So the sons of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil came on them.

And the sons of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him that did not come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

And the sons of Israel repented for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

What shall we do for wives for those that remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them our daughters as wives?

For when the people were numbered, look, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

And the people repented for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.