Joshua 8:4-6

New International Version

⁴with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert. ⁵I 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. ⁶They 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,

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Joshua 8:4-6

English Standard Version

⁴And he commanded them, “Behold, ^(A)you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready. ⁵And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us ^(B)just as before, we shall flee before them. ⁶And they will come out after us, until we have ^(C)drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them.

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Joshua 8:4-6

New King James Version

⁴And he commanded them, saying: “Behold, ^(A)you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. ⁵Then 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 ^(B)we shall flee before them. ⁶For 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.