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16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds,
to hear the bleatings of the flocks?
For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan:
and why did Dan remain in ships?
Asher continued on the sea shore,
and abode in his breaches.
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives
unto the death in the high places of the field.

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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