2 Samuel 17:19

In 11 translations

BSB

Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

KJV

And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

WEB

The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.

ASV

And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

LSV

and the woman takes and spreads the covering over the face of the well, and spreads the ground grain on it, and the thing has not been known.

YLT

and the woman taketh and spreadeth the covering over the face of the well, and spreadeth on it the ground corn, and the thing hath not been known.

DBY

And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.

DRC

And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley: and so the thing was not known.

GNV

And the wife tooke and spred a couering ouer the welles mouth, and spred ground corne thereon, that the thing should not be knowen.

JPS

And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known.

LXXE

And a woman took a covering, and spread it over the mouth of the well, and spread out ground corn upon it to dry, and the thing was not known.See Num. 11. 32; Jer. 8. 2.

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WLC

וַתִּקַּ֣ח הָאִשָּׁ֗ה וַתִּפְרֹ֤שׂ אֶת־הַמָּסָךְ֙ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הַבְּאֵ֔ר וַתִּשְׁטַ֥ח עָלָ֖יו הָֽרִפ֑וֹת וְלֹ֥א נוֹדַ֖ע דָּבָֽר׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἔλαβεν ἡ γυνὴ, καὶ διεπέτασε τὸ ἐπικάλυμμα ἐπὶ πρόσωπον τοῦ λάκκου, καὶ ἔψυξεν ἐπʼ αὐτῷ ἀραφὼθ, καὶ οὐκ ἐγνώσθη ῥῆμα.

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• Exodus 1:19The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”
• Joshua 2:4–24But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from. At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not…

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