Joshua 2:22 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And they go, and come in to the mountain, and abide there three days until the pursuers have turned back; and the pursuers seek in all the way, and have not found.

English ASV

And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.

English Amplified

They left and went to the mountain and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned, who had searched all along the way without finding them.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

They left and went to the mountain and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned, who had searched all along the way without finding them.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

So the two men went into the hill country and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. They searched all along the way, but did not find them.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And they went, and came to the mountain, and remained there three days, until the pursuers had returned; and the pursuers sought them all the way, and found them not.

English EASY 2024

The two Israelite men went into the hills and they hid there. The king's officers looked along the road for them for three days. They did not find them, so they returned to Jericho.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

The men left her house and went into the hills. They stayed there for three days. The king's men looked all along the road. After three days, they stopped looking and went back to the city.

They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

The spies went into the hills and hid. The king's men looked for them all over the countryside for three days, but they did not find them, so they returned to Jericho.

English God's Word - GW 1995

The men went to the mountains and stayed there for three days until the king's men returned to Jericho. The king's men had searched for them all along the road but had not found them.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

So the two men went into the hill country and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. They searched all along the way, but did not find them.

English KJV 1611

And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.

English LSB

And they went and came to the hill country and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers had sought them all along the road but had not found them.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

They went and came to the hill country. They stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned. The pursuers had sought them all along the way but had not found them.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

They departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had sought them all along the road, but had not found them.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

They went up into the hills, where they stayed three days until their pursuers, who had sought them all along the road without finding them, returned.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

They went to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them to return. Their pursuers looked all along the way but did not find them.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

When the spies left, they went up into the hills. They stayed there for three days. By that time the men who were chasing them had searched all along the road. They couldn't find them. So they returned.

English NIV

When they left, they went into the hills and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had searched all along the road and returned without finding them.

English NKJ 1982

They departed and went to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but did not find them.

English NLT

The spies went up into the hill country and stayed there three days. The men who were chasing them had searched everywhere along the road, but they finally returned to the city without success.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

They departed and went into the hill country and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned. The pursuers had searched all along the way and found nothing.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

The spies went straight to the hill country and hid there for three days, until the pursuers turned back. The king’s men had scoured the countryside without finding them.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

They departed, and went into the hills, and remained there three days, until the pursuers returned; for the pursuers had made search all along the way and found nothing.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

The spies went up into the mountains and stayed there three days, until the men who were chasing them had returned to the city after searching everywhere along the road without success.

English Tyndale 1537

And they departed and got them into the mountains, and there abode three days until the pursuers were returned. And the pursuers sought thorowout all the way and found them not.