Joshua 8:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

(For they will come out after us) until we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first; therefore we will flee before them.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    "They will chase after us until we lure them away from the city, for they will say, 'They are running away from us as they did before.' So we will flee before them."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    that they maye folowe out after vs, tyll we haue prouoked them forth of the cite: for they shal thinke that we flye before them, like as at ye first.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For they wil come out after vs, till we haue brought them out of the citie: for they will say, They flee before vs as at the first time: so we will flee before them.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For they wyll come out after vs tyll we haue brought them out of the citie. For they wyll say, They flee before vs, as at the first tyme: and we will flee before them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They will attack us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say,‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 14:3 : 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are trapped in the land, the wilderness has shut them in.
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
  • Judg 20:32 : 32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city to the highways.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

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