Joshua 2:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ ‘Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won’t find you,’ she said to them. ‘Hide there for three days until they return; afterwards, go on your way.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And she said to them, Get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers have returned; and afterward you may go your way.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then she said to them, “Go toward the highlands so that those chasing you don’t run into you. Hide there for three days until those chasing you return. Then you may go on your way.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And she said to them: "Climb up to the mountains; otherwise, they may meet you as they are returning. And lay hidden there for three days, until they return. And then you will go on your way."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return; and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back. And so you shall go on your way.

Joshua 2:16 Cross References

James 2:25

In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works in receiving the messengers and sending them out by a different route?

Joshua 2:15

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, since she lived in a house that was built into the wall of the city.

Joshua 2:22

So the two men went into the hill country and stayed there for three days until the pursuers had returned. They searched all along the way, but did not find them.

1 Samuel 23:14

David then stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph.  Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand David over to him.

1 Samuel 23:29

From there David went up and stayed in the strongholds of En-gedi.