Joshua 2:16 - Modern English Version

¹⁶ She said to them, “Go to the hill country so that the pursuers do not find you. Hide there three days until the pursuers return. After that, you can 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."

Joshua 2:16 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 11:1

In the Lord I seek refuge; how do you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain,

James 2:25

Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

Joshua 2:15

Then Rahab lowered them by a rope through the window, for her home was set into the wall where she lived.

Joshua 2:22

They went and came to the hill country. They stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned. The pursuers had sought them all along the way but had not found them.

1 Samuel 23:14

And David remained in the wilderness in strongholds, and dwelt in mountains in the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

1 Samuel 23:29

David then went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.