Deuteronomy 33:22
Good News Translation
About the tribe of Dan he said: "Dan is a young lion; He leaps out from Bashan."

New Revised Standard Version
And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion’s whelp that leaps forth from Bashan.

Contemporary English Version
Tribe of Dan, you are like a lion cub, startled by a snake.

New American Bible
Of Dan he said: Dan is a lion’s cub, that springs away from a viper!

Douay-Rheims Bible
To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.

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To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.

Genesis 49:16,17 Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel. . . .

Joshua 19:47 And is terminated there. And the children of Dan went up and fought against Lesem, and took it: and they put it to the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt in it, calling the name of it Lesem Dan, by the name of Dan their father.

Judges 13:2,24,25 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren. . . .

Judges 14:6,19 And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and he tore the lion as he would have torn a kid in pieces, having nothing at all in his hand: and he would not tell this to his father and mother. . . .

Judges 15:8,15 And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam. . . .

Judges 16:30 He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life.

Judges 18:27 And the six hundred men took the priest, and the things we spoke of before, and came to Lais, to a people that was quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword: and the city they burnt with fire,

1 Chronicles 12:35 Of Dan also twenty-eight thousand six hundred prepared for battle.

Context
Moses Blesses the Twelve Tribes
21And he saw his pre-eminence, that in his portion the teacher was laid up: who was with the princes of the people, and did the justices of the Lord, and his judgment with Israel. 22To Dan also he said: Dan is a young lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.23And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and the south.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people like another tribe in Israel.

Job 37:1
At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.

Ezekiel 19:2
And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

Ezekiel 19:3
And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

Deuteronomy 33:21
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