The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came from.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
- BSB But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
- NKJV Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.
- NASB But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them, and she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.
- NLT Rahab had hidden the two men, but she replied, “Yes, the men were here earlier, but I didn’t know where they were from.
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- 2 Sam 17:19–20The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.
- 2 Kgs 6:19Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria.
- 2 Sam 16:18–19Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will stay.
- Exod 1:19The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
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