Joshua 8:6
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 8:6 King James Version (KJV)
(for they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
Joshua 8:6 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ So we will flee before them.
Joshua 8:6 New Century Version (NCV)
They will chase us away from the city, thinking we are running away from them as we did before. When we run away
Joshua 8:6 American Standard Version (ASV)
and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them
Joshua 8:6 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, “They are running away from us as they did before.” So when we flee from them
Joshua 8:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
For they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ Therefore we will flee before them.
Joshua 8:6 Amplified Bible (AMP)
They will come out after us until we have lured them away from the city, because they will say, ‘They are running from us as [they did] before.’ So we will run from them.
Joshua 8:6 New Living Translation (NLT)
We will let them chase us until we have drawn them away from the town. For they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ Then, while we are running from them