2 Samuel 17:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ The man’s wife took a covering, stretched it over the well’s mouth, and spread out grain on it, and nothing was known of it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And the woman spread a covering over the well's mouth and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not discovered.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ The man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the well’s opening, then scattered grain over it so no one would notice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Then a woman took and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as if drying hulled barley. And so the matter was hidden.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley: and so the thing was not known.

2 Samuel 17:19 Cross References

Exodus 1:19

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Exodus 9:33

So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and stretched out his hands to the Lord; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the earth.