Exodus 23:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
"I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.

New Living Translation
“I will send my terror ahead of you and create panic among all the people whose lands you invade. I will make all your enemies turn and run.

English Standard Version
I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

Berean Study Bible
I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.

New American Standard Bible
I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

NASB 1995
"I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

NASB 1977
“I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

Amplified Bible
I will send My terror ahead of you, and I will throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you [in flight].

Christian Standard Bible
“I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror and will throw into confusion all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror and throw into confusion all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat.

Contemporary English Version
I will terrify those nations and make your enemies so confused that they will run from you.

Good News Translation
"I will make the people who oppose you afraid of me; I will bring confusion among the people against whom you fight, and I will make all your enemies turn and run from you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I will send my terror ahead of you and throw any nation you meet into a panic. I will make all your enemies flee from you.

International Standard Version
"I'll go ahead of you and terrorize all the people to whom you are coming. I'll confuse your enemies and make them turn their backs on you and run away.

NET Bible
"I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

New King James Version
“I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

King James 2000 Bible
I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs unto you.

New Heart English Bible
I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

World English Bible
I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

American King James Version
I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

American Standard Version
I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

A Faithful Version
I will send My fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come. And I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

Darby Bible Translation
I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee.

English Revised Version
I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thy enemies turn their backs to thee.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
I will send my feare before thee, & will destroy all the people among whome thou shalt go: and I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto thee:

Bishops' Bible of 1568
I will sende my feare before thee, and wyll destroy all the people whyther thou shalt go: & I wyll make all thine enemies turne theyr backes vnto thee.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
I wil sende my feare before the, and sley all the people where thou comest, & will make all thine enemies to turne their backes vpo the.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
I will sende my feare before the and will kyll all the people whether thou shalt goo. And I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto the,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
I send My terror before you, and I have put to death all the people among whom you come, and I have given the neck of all your enemies to you.

Young's Literal Translation
My terror I send before thee, and I have put to death all the people among whom thou comest, and I have given the neck of all thine enemies unto thee.

Smith's Literal Translation
I will send my terror before thee and I killed all the people which thou shalt come to them; and I gave all thine enemies the back to thee.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee.

Catholic Public Domain Version
I will send my terror to run ahead of you, and I will kill all the people to whom you will enter. And I will turn the backs of all your enemies before you,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And I shall send my awe before you and I shall destroy all the nations where you go against them and I shall cause your enemies to turn their back before you.

Lamsa Bible
I will send my fear before you and will destroy all the peoples against whom you shall go to war, and I will make all your enemies flee from you.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
I will send My terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I will send terror before thee, and I will strike with amazement all the nations to which thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies to flee.
















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