KJV King James Version
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
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2 Samuel 17:19
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then the man’s wife took a covering, spread it over the mouth of the well, and scattered grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
WEB World English Bible
The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.
ASV American Standard Version
And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 17
16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that [are] with him.
17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
20 And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find [them], they returned to Jerusalem.
21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
22 Then David arose, and all the people that [were] with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
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וַתִּקַּ֣חH3947 · la.qachto take: takeהָאִשָּׁ֗הH802 · ish.shahwomanוַתִּפְרֹ֤שׂH6566 · pa.ra.sto spreadאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַמָּסָךְ֙H4539 · ma.sakhcoveringעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֣יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeהַבְּאֵ֔רH875 · be.erwellוַתִּשְׁטַ֥חH7849 · sha.tachto spreadעָלָ֖יוH5921 · aluponהָֽרִפ֑וֹתH7383 · ri.phahgrainוְלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotנוֹדַ֖עH3045 · ya.dato knowדָּבָֽר׃H1697 · da.varword
Cross-references
Exodus 1:19And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women; for they [are] lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.Joshua 2:4-24And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]:
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