New International Version
with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

New Living Translation
with these orders: “Hide in ambush close behind the town and be ready for action.

English Standard Version
And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.

Berean Standard Bible
with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

King James Bible
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

New King James Version
And he commanded them, saying: “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

New American Standard Bible
He commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

NASB 1995
He commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

NASB 1977
And he commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

Amplified Bible
He commanded them, saying, “Listen closely, you are going to lie in wait and ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far away from the city, but all of you be ready.

Christian Standard Bible
He commanded them, “Pay attention. Lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it, and all of you be ready.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He commanded them: “Pay attention. Lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it, and all of you be ready.

American Standard Version
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he commanded them and he said to them: “See when you lie in ambush against the city from behind the city, you shall not go very far from the city, and be ready, all of you

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he charged them, saying, Do ye lie in ambush behind the city: do not go far from the city, and ye shall all be ready.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready.

English Revised Version
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
with these orders: "Set an ambush behind the city. Don't go very far away from the city. Everyone must be ready.

Good News Translation
with these orders: "Hide on the other side of the city, but not too far away from it; be ready to attack.

International Standard Version
telling them, "Pay attention now! You are to set up an ambush around the city. Don't go very far from the city, and all of you remain on alert.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he commanded them, saying: 'Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready.

Literal Standard Version
and commands them, saying, “See, you are ones lying in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, you do not go very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared,

Majority Standard Bible
with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

New American Bible
with these orders: “See that you ambush the city from the rear. Do not be very far from the city. All of you must be ready.

NET Bible
He told them, "Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don't go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

New Revised Standard Version
with the command, “You shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but all of you stay alert.

New Heart English Bible
He commanded them, saying, "Look, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
and commandeth them, saying, 'See, ye are liers in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, ye go not very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared,

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