Dan doth judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel;
and Rachel saith, `God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan.
And he seeth rest that it is good, And the land that it is pleasant, And he inclineth his shoulder to bear, And is to tribute a servant.
Dan is a serpent by the way, An adder by the path, Which is biting the horse's heels, And its rider falleth backward.
And the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan hath journeyed (rearward to all the camps), by their hosts, and over its host is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.
And of Dan he said: --Dan is a lion's whelp; he doth leap from Bashan.
And there is a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danite, and his name is Manoah, his wife is barren, and hath not borne;
And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.