Judges 18:8
Good News Translation
When the five men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, the people asked them what they had found out.

New Revised Standard Version
When they came to their kinsfolk at Zorah and Eshtaol, they said to them, “What do you report?”

Contemporary English Version
The five men went back to Zorah and Eshtaol, where their relatives asked, "Did you find any land?"

New American Bible
When the five returned to their kin in Zorah and Eshtaol, they were asked, “What do you have to report?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done: to whom they answered:

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And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done: to whom they answered:

Zorah and Eshtaol

Judges 18:2,11 So the children of Dan sent five most valiant men, of their stock and family, from Saraa and Esthaol, to spy out the land, and to view it diligently: and they said to them: Go, and view the land. They went on their way, and when they came to mount Ephraim, they went into the house of Michas, and rested there: . . .

Judges 13:2 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.

Judges 16:31 And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.

Context
The Danites Settle in Laish
7So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the people dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the Sidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being very rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all men. 8And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done: to whom they answered:9Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess it, there will be no difficulty.…
Cross References
Joshua 15:33
But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,

Judges 18:7
So the five men going on came to Lais: and they saw how the people dwelt therein without any fear, according to the custom of the Sidonians, secure and easy, having no man at all to oppose them, being very rich, and living separated, at a distance from Sidon and from all men.

Judges 18:9
Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess it, there will be no difficulty.

Judges 18:7
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