Joshua 8:5
Joshua 8:3-8 The Message (MSG)
Joshua and all his soldiers got ready to march on Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, tough, seasoned fighters, and sent them off at night with these orders: “Pay me all of your attention now. Lie in ambush behind the city. Get as close as you can. Stay alert. I and the troops with me will approach the city head-on. When they come out to meet us just as before, we’ll turn and run. They’ll come after us, leaving the city. As we are off and running, they’ll say, ‘They’re running away just like the first time.’ That’s your signal to spring from your ambush and take the city. GOD, your God, will hand it to you on a platter. Once you have the city, burn it down. GOD says it, you do it. Go to it. I’ve given you your orders.”
Joshua 8:5 King James Version (KJV)
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
Joshua 8:5 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as at the first, we will flee before them.
Joshua 8:5 New Century Version (NCV)
I and the men who are with me will march toward the city, and the men in the city will come out to fight us, just as they did before. Then we will turn and run away from them.
Joshua 8:5 American Standard Version (ASV)
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
Joshua 8:5 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them.
Joshua 8:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city; and it will come about, when they come out against us as at the first, that we shall flee before them.
Joshua 8:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us [for battle] as [they did] the first time, we will run away from them.
Joshua 8:5 New Living Translation (NLT)
When our main army attacks, the men of Ai will come out to fight as they did before, and we will run away from them.