^2:16She told them, “Head⁴⁰ to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you.⁴¹ Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you⁴² to return. Then you can be on your way.”

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Footnotes

40 Heb “Go.”
41 Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”
42 Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And she said to them, “Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

She said to them, “Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return, and then go on your way.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won’t find you,” she said to them. “Hide there for three days until they return; afterward, go on your way.”

NLTNew Living Translation

“Escape to the hill country,” she told them. “Hide there for three days from the men searching for you. Then, when they have returned, you can go on your way.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And she said to them, “Go to the mountain, so that the pursuers will not find you, and hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers return, and afterward you may go on your way.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

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