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16 Why do you sit among the sheepfolds
    to hear playing of pipes for the flocks?
In the clans of Reuben
    there was much searching of heart.
17 Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan.
    As for Dan, why did he stay with the ships?
Asher stayed by the seacoast
    and settled by its bays.
18 Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the point of death,
    Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.

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16 Why did you stay among the sheep pens[a](A)
    to hear the whistling for the flocks?(B)
In the districts of Reuben
    there was much searching of heart.
17 Gilead(C) stayed beyond the Jordan.
    And Dan, why did he linger by the ships?
Asher(D) remained on the coast(E)
    and stayed in his coves.
18 The people of Zebulun(F) risked their very lives;
    so did Naphtali(G) on the terraced fields.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 5:16 Or the campfires; or the saddlebags