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16 Why did you stay beside your hearths
    listening to the lowing of the herds?
Among the clans of Reuben
    great were the searchings of heart!
17 Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan;
    Why did Dan spend his time in ships?
Asher remained along the shore,
    he stayed in his havens.
18 Zebulun was a people who defied death,
    Naphtali, too, on the open heights!(A)

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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