5. They said to him, “Please ask God if we may know whether our mission will be a success as we go to do it.”
6. The priest said to them, “Go in peace. The Lord is watching the way you are going.”
7. The five men went away and came to Laish. They saw the people who were there, living securely according to the culture of the Sidonians. There were no rulers in the land who might put them to shame for anything. They were far from the Sidonians and had no ties with anyone.
8. When they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What do you have to say?”
9. They said, “Get up! Let us go up against them, for we have seen the land. It is very good. You are silent, but do not hesitate to go to take the land.
10. When you go, you will come to a secure people and to an expansive land. For God has given it into your hands: a place where there is no lack of anything on the earth.”