KJV King James Version
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
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Judges 3:26
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.
WEB World English Bible
Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.
ASV American Standard Version
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Ehud escaped during their tarrying, and hath passed by the images, and is escaped to Seirath.
Surrounding context — Judges 3
23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour [were] locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened [them]: and, behold, their lord [was] fallen down dead on the earth.
26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
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