Joshua 8:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. When they come out against us, as before, we will flee from them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ and I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us, as the first time, we will flee before them

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ and I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city. And it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;

Common English Bible

⁵ I will approach the city with all the people. When they come out against us the same way as before, we will flee from them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ But I and the remainder of the multitude that is with me will approach from the opposite side of the city. And when they come out against us, we will flee and turn our backs, just as we did before,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ But I and the rest of the multitude which is with me will approach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we did before:

Joshua 8:5 Cross References

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Joshua 7:5

The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, chasing them from outside the gate as far as Shebarim and killing them on the slope. The hearts of the people melted and turned to water.

Joshua 8:6

They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us as before.’ While we flee from them,