Bent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab; but he would not consent: and Israel abode in 18 Kadesh. Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab; for 19 Arnon was the border of Moab. And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray 20 thee, through thy land into my place. But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and 21 fought against Israel. And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that coun22 try. And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the 23 Jordan. So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou 24 possess it? Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So will we possess the land of those whom the LORD our God shall drive 25 out from before us. And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them, 26 while Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that 27 time ? Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of 29 Jephthah which he sent him. Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto 30 the children of Ammon. And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children 31 of Aramon into my hands, then whatsoever cometh forth out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, or I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

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So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands. 33 And he smote them from Aroer, even to Minnith, twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

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And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; and she was his only child; beside her he had not of his own either son or 25 daughter. And when he saw her, he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter!

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thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back. And she said unto 36 him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions. And he said, Go. And 38 he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. And 39 at the end of two months she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she continued a virgin. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went 40 yearly to lament with the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

And the men of Ephraim gathered them- 12 selves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire. And Jephthah said unto them, 2 I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. And when I saw that ye delivered 3 me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

Then Jephthah gathered together all the 4 men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. And the 5 Gileadites took the passages of the Jordan before the Ephraimites: and when those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over; the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; then said they unto him, 6 Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

And Jephthah judged Israel six years. 7 Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in his own city of Gilead.

AND after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem 8 judged Israel. And he had thirty sons, 9 and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. Then died Ibzan, and was buried 10 at Beth-lehem.

AND after him, Elon, a Zebulunite, 11 judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. And Elon the Zebulunite died, and 12 was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.

AND after him Abdon the son of Hillel, 13 a Pirathonite, judged Israel. And he had 14 forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. And Abdon the 15 son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was

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And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and 3 bare not. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not; but thou shalt conceive, and bear a

4 son. Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and 5 eat not any unclean thing; for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel. out of the hand of the Philistines.

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Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible; but I asked him not whence he was, nei7 ther told he me his name: but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

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Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child 9 that shall be born. And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was 10 not with her. And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, who came unto me the other day. 11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man who spakest unto the 12 woman? And he said, I am. And Ma

noah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we train up the child, and what 13 shall he do? And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto 14 the woman let her beware. She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

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And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for 16 thee. And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not 17 that he was the angel of the LORD. And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? 18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, see19 ing it is secret? So Manoah took a kid with a thank offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife 20 looked on. For when the flame went up towards the heavens from off the altar, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the

peared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. And Manoah said unto his 22 wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. But his wife said unto him, If 23 the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a thank offering at our hands, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would he as at this time have told us such things as these.

And the woman bare a son, and called 24 his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. And the Spirit of 25 the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

AND Samson went down to Timnath, 14 and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up, 2 and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. Then his 3 father and his mother said unto him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. But his father and his mother 4 knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. Then went Samson 5 down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath; and, behold, a young lion roared on meeting him. And the Spirit of the 6 LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. And he went down, and talked with 7 the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

And after a time he returned to take s her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. And he took thereof in his hands, 9 and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat; but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the

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So his father went down unto the woman; !" and Samson made there a feast, for so used the young men to do. And when they 11 saw him, they brought thirty companious to be with him. And Samson said unto 1. them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, of your own finding out, then I will give you thirty changes of outer and under garments: but 11 if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty changes of outer and under garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. And he said unto them,

Out of the cater came forth food,

And out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. And on the fourth day of the 1. feast they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us

16 to take that we have? is it not so? And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall 17 I tell it thee? And she wept before him the rest of the seven days, while their feast lasted and on the seventh day he told her, because she lay sore upon him and she told the riddle to the children of her peo18 ple. And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down,

What is sweeter than honey?

And what is stronger than a lion?

And he said unto them, If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, ye had not found 19 out my riddle. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave changes of outer and under garments unto them who expounded the riddle.

And his anger was kindled, and he went 20 up to his father's house. But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

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wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber: but her father would 2 not suffer him to go in. And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

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And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. 4 And Samson went and caught three hun.. dred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the 5 midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and 6 olives. Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock Etam.

Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in 10 Lehi. And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, 11 to do to him as he hath done to us.

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three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done 12 unto them. And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me M

yourselves. And they spake unto him, 13 saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

And when he came unto Lehi, the Phi- 14 listines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. And he 15 found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And Samson 16 said,

With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps,

With the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

And when he had made an end of speak- 17 ing, he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi [THE CASTING AWAY OF THE JAWBONE].

And he was sore athirst, and called on 18 the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? But God clave a hollow place that was in 19 the rock at Ramath-lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore [THE WELL OF HIM THAT CRIED], which is in Lehi unto this day.

And he governed Israel as a judge in the 20 days of the Philistines twenty years.

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw 16 there a harlot, and went in unto her. And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, By the morning, when it is day, we shall have killed him. And Samson lay 3 till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts with the bar, and went away with them, and put them upon his shoul ders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that looketh towards Hebron.

And afterward he loved a woman in the 4 valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up 5 unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to humble him; and we will give thee, each one of us, eleven hundred pieces of silver.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I 6 pray thee, wherein thy great strength fieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. And Samson said 7 unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Then 8 the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Now there were men lying in wait, abiding 9 with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, 10 thou hast mocked me, and told me lies:

now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were used, then shall I be weak, and 12 be as another man. Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

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And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web, and fasten them to the beam in the wall with that pin, I shall be as weak as other men. 14 So when he was asleep she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

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And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy 16 great strength lieth. And when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto 17 death; he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb; if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.

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And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought 19 money in their hands. And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to humble him, and his strength had gone 20 from him. And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD was de21 parted from him. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

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Howbeit the hair of his head began to 23 grow again after he was shaven. Then the fords of the Philistines gathered themselves together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our 24 enemy into our hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our 25 country, who slew many of us. And when their hearts were merry, they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they 26 set him between the pillars. And Samson said unto the lad who held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I 27 may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand

men and women, who beheld while Samson made sport. And Samson called unto 23 the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. And Samson 29 took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. And 30 Samson said, Let me die with the Philis tines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people who were therein. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than they whom he had slain in his life.

Then his brethren and all the house of 31 his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel

twenty years.

AND there was a man of mount Ephra 17 im, whose name was Micah. And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son. And when he had restored the eleven hun- 3 dred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make an engraved molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. Yet he restored the money unto 4 his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof an engraved molten image; and it was in the house of Micah. And the man Micah had a 5 house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. In those days there 6 was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. And the man departed out of the city from 8 Beth-lehem-judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. And Micah said unto him, 9 Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place. And Micah said unto him, Dwell D with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a double suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

And the Levite was content to dwell 11 with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. And Micah 12 consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. Then said Mical, Now 13 know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

In those days there was no king in Is rael: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. And the children of Dan sent of 2 their family five men from their coasts,

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: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they 3 lodged there. When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this 4 place? and what hast thou here? And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I 5 am his priest. And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether the way which we 6 go shall be prosperous. And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.

7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and seeure; and there was no magistrate in the land, who might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no intercourse with 8 any other people. And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say 9 ye? 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 10 to possess the land. 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.

11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girded with 12 weapons of war. And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan [THE CAMP OF DAN] unto this day: 13 behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim. And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, 14 and came unto the house of Micah.

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answered the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there are in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved molten image? now there15 fore consider what ye have to do. And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted 16 him. And the six hundred men girded with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of 17 the gate. And the five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the engraved molten image, and the ephod, and the teraphim: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men who were 1 girded with weapons of war. And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved molten image, the ephod, and the teraphim. Then said the priest unto 19 them, What do ye? And they said unto Lim, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and 20 a family in Israel? And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved molten

image, and went in the midst of the people. So they turned and departed, and put the 21 little ones and the cattle and the baggage before them.

And when they were a good way from 22 the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the childreu of Dan. And they cried unto the 23 children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company? And he said, Ye have taken away 24 my god which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee? And the children of Dan said 25 unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest men of bitter spirit run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household. And the children 26 of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

And they took the things which Micah 27 had made, and the priest whom he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people who were quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. And there was no de- 28 liverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no intercourse with any other people; and it was in the valley that lie th by Beth-rehob.

And they built a city, and dwelt therein. And they called the name of the city Dan, 29 after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first. And the 30 children of Dan set up the engraved molten image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the grandson of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. And they 31 set them up Micah's engraved molten im age, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

AND in those days, when there was no 19 king in Israel, there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a woman, a concubine, out of Beth-lehem-judah. And his con- 2 cubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.

And her husband arose, and went after 3 her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. And his father-in-law, the 4 damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there. And on 5 the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son-inlaw, Comfort thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go thy way. they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together; for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry. And when the man rose up to 7 depart, his father-in-law urged him: therefore he lodged there again. And he arose 8 early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Com

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