JOS 2:8 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Before the Israeli men lay down to sleep that night, Rahab went up them on the roof

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἐξήλθοσαν οἱ διώκοντες ὀπίσω αὐτῶν, καὶ αὐτοὶ δὲ πρὶν ἢ κοιμηθῆναι αὐτοὺς, αὕτη δὲ ἀνέβη πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ δῶμα,
(Kai egeneto hōs exaʸlthosan hoi diōkontes opisō autōn, kai autoi de prin aʸ koimaʸthaʸnai autous, hautaʸ de anebaʸ pros autous epi to dōma, )

BrTr And it came to pass when the men who pursued after them were gone forth, and before the spies had lain down to sleep, that she came up to them on the top of the house;

UST The two men expected to sleep on the roof, hiding under the flax stalks. But Rahab went up to the roof and spoke with them before they went to sleep.

OEB Before the two men had lain down, the woman came to them on the roof and said,

WEBBE Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Now before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to the roof.

LSV And before they lie down, she has gone up to them on the roof,

FBV Before the spies went to sleep, Rachel came up to the roof to talk to them.

T4T Before the two men lay down to sleep that night, Rahab went up to the roof

LEB Before _⌊they went to sleep_⌋,[fn] she came up to them on the roof

2:8 Literally “they lay down”

BBE And before the men went to rest, she came up to them on the roof,

Moff The two men had not lain down before the woman came to them on the roof and said,

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

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

DRA The men that were hidden were not yet asleep, when behold the woman went up to them, and said:

YLT And — before they lie down — she hath gone up unto them on the roof,

Drby And before they had lain down, she went up to them upon the roof;

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

SLT And before they will lie down; and she went up to them upon the roof;

Wbstr And before they had lain down, she came up to them upon the roof;

KJB-1769 ¶ And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

KJB-1611 ¶ And before they were laide downe, shee came vp vnto them vpon the roofe.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And or euer they were asleepe, she came vp vnto them vpon the rooffe,
(And or ever they were asleep, she came up unto them upon the roof,)

Gnva And before they were a sleepe, she came vp vnto them vpon the roofe,
(And before they were a sleep, she came up unto them upon the roof, )

Cvdl And or euer the men layed them downe to slepe, she wente vp to them vnto the house toppe,
(And or ever the men laid them down to sleep, she went up to them unto the house toppe,)

Wycl Thei that weren hid, slepten not yit, and lo! the womman stiede to hem, and seide,
(They that were hid, slept not yet, and lo! the woman stayed to hem, and said,)

Luth Und ehe denn die Männer sich schlafen legten, stieg sie zu ihnen hinauf auf das Dach
(And before because/than the men itself/yourself/themselves sleep laid, rose(v) they/she/them to/for to_them up on/in/to the roof)

ClVg Necdum obdormierant qui latebant, et ecce mulier ascendit ad eos, et ait:
(Necdum obdormierant who/which latebant, and behold woman went_up to them, and he_said: )

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 2:1–24 Joshua sent men to explore Jericho secretly

Joshua sent two men to look at Jericho, a town in the land of Canaan. A woman of Jericho called Rahab hid the two men so that the king’s soldiers could not find them. She did this because she believed that Yahweh would help the Israelites conquer their land. The men promised Rahab that if she did not betray them, they would rescue her and her family when the Israelites conquered the town. Rahab helped the men escape from Jericho and they hid in the hills for three days. When the soldiers of Jericho stopped looking for them, they returned to Joshua.

Here are some other possible section headings:

The spies went to Jericho

The spies and Rahab

Rahab helped the spies

Paragraph 2:8–11

Rahab told the spies that the news about the Israelites had made her people afraid. She believed that the God of Israel would help the Israelites to conquer the land.

2:8

In this verse the storyline changes back to what the two Israelite spies did. This action takes place at approximately the same time as the action in the previous verse. While the soldiers were searching for the Israelite spies along the road to the Jordan River, the spies were getting ready to sleep on the roof of Rahab’s house.

2:8a

Before the spies lay down for the night,

¶ As for the Israelite men, before they lay down to sleep,
¶ Meanwhile, before the two men went to sleep that night

Before the spies lay down for the night: The Hebrew clause that the BSB translates as Before the spies lay down is more literally “and they, before they lay down.” The Hebrew conjunction together with the emphatic pronoun indicates a change of subject, from the king’s men back to the Israelite men. Some languages have a grammatical marker which indicates a change of subject.

lay down for the night: The Hebrew verb that the BSB translates as lay down indicates that the men were lying down to go to sleep.

Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:

As for the Israelite men, before they lay down to sleep

Meanwhile, before the two men went to sleep that night

2:8b

Rahab went up on the roof

Rahab went to them on the roof.
Rahab went up on the roof to see them.

Rahab went up on the roof: The name Rahab refers to Rahab. In some languages it may be necessary to make this explicit.

Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:

Rahab went up to them again on the roof

Rahab went up on the roof to talk with them (NLT)

Parallel JOS 2:8

Section 2:1–24 Joshua sent men to explore Jericho secretly

Paragraph 2:8–11

2:8

2:8a

2:8b