8Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof


In Context

5 At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left. I don't know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them."

6 (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.)

7 So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.

8 Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof

9 and said to them, "I know that the Lord has given this land to you and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you.

10 We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed.

Joshua 2:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:8And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:8The men that were hidden were not yet asleep, when behold the woman went up to them, and said:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:8And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8And before they had lain down, she went up to them upon the roof;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:8And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8And before they had lain down, she came up to them upon the roof;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8Before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8And — before they lie down — she hath gone up unto them on the roof,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:8And before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;