Joshua 8:6

They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

(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.

World English Bible

They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,

American Standard Version

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;

Geneva Bible 1599

For they wil come out after vs, till we haue brought them out of the citie: for they will say, They flee before vs as at the first time: so we will flee before them.

Darby Translation

And 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; and we will flee before them.

Young's Literal Translation

and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,

Bible in Basic English

And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

In context

5Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.

7you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

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