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29 and the name of the city was called Dan, by the name of their father (after the name of their father), whom Israel had begat, the which city was called Laish before.

30 And Dan setted there the graven image (And the Danites set up Micah’s idol), and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, [the] son of Moses, and Jonathan’s sons, (were) the priests, in the lineage of Dan, till into the day of their captivity.

31 And the idol of Micah dwelled with them, in all [the] time that the house of God was in Shiloh. (And Micah’s idol stayed with them, all the time that the House of God was in Shiloh.)

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29 They named it Dan(A) after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city used to be called Laish.(B) 30 There the Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom,(C) the son of Moses,[a] and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land. 31 They continued to use the idol Micah had made,(D) all the time the house of God(E) was in Shiloh.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 18:30 Many Hebrew manuscripts, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate; many other Hebrew manuscripts and some other Septuagint manuscripts Manasseh