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Joshua 2:6

What does Joshua 2:6 mean?

A plain-English look at Joshua 2:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

But she had taken them up to the roof, covering them with the stems of flax which she had put out in order there.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and she hath caused them to go up on the roof, and hideth them with the flax wood, which is arranged for her on the roof.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

But she had taken them up to the roof, and secreted them under the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof.

Context

v.5and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not: pursue after them quickly; for ye will overtake them.

v.6This passage

v.7And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 22:8

    When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

  • Exodus 1:15

    And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

  • Jeremiah 36:26

    And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.

  • James 2:25

    And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

  • Joshua 2:8

    And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

  • 2 Samuel 17:19

    And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

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