Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall, so that she was living on the wall.

King James Version

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Holman Bible

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, since she lived in a house that was built into the wall of the city.

International Standard Version

So she let them down by a rope through the window, since her house was built into the town wall where she lived.

A Conservative Version

Then she let them down by a cord through the window, for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

American Standard Version

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Amplified

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she was living on the wall.

Bible in Basic English

Then she let them down from the window by a cord, for the house where she was living was on the town wall.

Darby Translation

And she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the city-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Julia Smith Translation

And she will let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the wall side and she will dwell upon the wall.

King James 2000

Then she let them down by a rope through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then she lowered them with a rope through the window, as her house [was] on the outer side of the wall, and she [was] residing in the wall.

Modern King James verseion

Then she let them go down by a cord through the window. For her house was on the town wall, and she lived on the wall.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And then she let them down with a cord through the window. For her house stood in the town wall. And she dwelt in the town wall.

NET Bible

Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window. (Her house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.)

New Heart English Bible

Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

The Emphasized Bible

And she let them down with a cord through the window, - for, her house, was within the wall of the rampart, and, within the rampart, she was dwelling.

Webster

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

World English Bible

Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

Youngs Literal Translation

And she causeth them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house is in the side of the wall, and in the wall she is dwelling;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
by a cord
חבל חבל 
Chebel 
Usage: 62

בּעד 
B@`ad 
at, for, by, over, upon, about, up, through
Usage: 104

the window
חלּון 
Challown 
Usage: 31

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

was upon the town
קירה קר קיר 
Qiyr 
Usage: 74

חומה 
Chowmah 
Usage: 133

and she dwelt
ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

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Context Readings

Spies View The Land

14 So the men said to her, “Our life for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and it shall come about when the Lord gives us the land that we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.” 15 Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall, so that she was living on the wall. 16 She said to them, “Go to the hill country, so that the pursuers will not happen upon you, and hide yourselves there for three days until the pursuers return. Then afterward you may go on your way.”



Cross References

Acts 9:25

but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.

2 Corinthians 11:33

and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

Joshua 6:20

So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city.

1 Samuel 19:12-17

So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.

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