They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
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They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
So they turned aside there, and they entered into the house of the young man, the Levite, at the house of Micah, and they asked of him concerning peace.
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They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
And they turned thitherward and came to the house of the yong man the Leuite, euen vnto the house of Michah, and saluted him peaceably.
And when they had turned a little aside, they went into the house of the young man the Levite, who was in the house of Michas: and they saluted him with words of peace.
And they turn aside thither, and come in unto the house of the young man the Levite, the house of Micah, and ask of him of welfare, --
And they turn aside there, and come to the house of the young man, the Levite, the house of Micah, and ask of him of welfare—
So they turned in there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the house of Micah, and they greeted him.
So they turned aside there, and they entered into the house of the young man, the Levite, at the house of Micah, and they asked of him concerning peace.
And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and saluted him.
The five men left the road and went to where the young Levite was living in Micah's home to ask how he was.
And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?
And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִיכָ֑ה Micah H4318 occurs in 31 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 19 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיָּס֣וּרוּ שָׁ֔מָּה וַיָּבֹ֛אוּ אֶל בֵּֽית הַנַּ֥עַר הַלֵּוִ֖י בֵּ֣ית מִיכָ֑ה וַיִּשְׁאֲלוּ ל֖וֹ לְשָׁלֽוֹם
They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἐκκλίνω ἐκεῖ καί εἰςἔρχομαι εἰς ὁ οἶκος ὁ νεανίσκος ὁ λευίτης οἶκος μιχαιας καί ἐρωτάω αὐτός εἰς εἰρήνη
And they turned aside there, and went into the house of the young man, the Levite, even into the house of Michaias, and asked him how he was.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְזָרוּ לְתַמָן וְעָלוּ לְבֵית עוּלֵימָא לְוָאָה בֵּית מִיכָה וּשְׁאִילוּ לֵיהּ לִשְׁלָם:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mîykâh (“Micah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 18:15 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
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Door43 World Missions Community
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