Joshua 8:5
World English Bible (WEB)
I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
In context
3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
5 I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
6 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,
7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Joshua 8:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
- KJV King James Version
- And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- and I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city. And it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and I and all the people who [are] with me draw near unto the city, and it hath come to pass when they come out to meet us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I and all the people that are with me will approach to the city; and it shall come to pass when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach to the city: and it shall come to pass when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,