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Douay-Rheims
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For they thought to cut them off as they did before. But they artfully feigning a flight, designed to draw them away from the city, and by their seeming to flee, to bring them to the highways aforesaid.
King James
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And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
Louis Second
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Les fils de Benjamin disaient: Les voilà battus devant nous comme auparavant! Mais les enfants d'Israël disaient: Fuyons, et attirons-les loin de la ville dans les chemins
Martin Luther
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Da gedachten die Kinder Benjamin: Sie sind geschlagen vor uns, wie vorhin. Aber die Kinder Israel sprachen: Laßt uns fliehen, daß wir sie von der Stadt reißen auf die Straße.
Vulgate
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putaverunt enim solito eos more cedere qui fugam arte simulantes iniere consilium ut abstraherent eos de civitate et quasi fugientes ad supradictas semitas perducerent

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


enim : in fact, truly, indeed.
enim : for, in fact, truly (may often be omitted).
solito : [+ comp. adj.] more than usually
solito : to be accustomed to, have the habit of, make a practice of.
qui : quae : que : quod : which, what, that.
qui : (masc. pl. nom.) Let THOSE (men) WHO have eyes to see..
qui : (masc. neut. nom.) (the prince) WHO loved a milkmaid.
qui : (question) how? in what way? / somehow / wherewith.
consilium : advice, suggestion, wisdom, plan, purpose, judgment.
consilium : deliberation, consultation, assembly, council.
consilium : deliberation, resolution, measure as in plan, advice.
ut : (+ subj.) (result) so that, that.
ut : (+ subj.) (purpose) in order that, to, that.
ut : (+ indic.) when, as.
ut : (+ subj.) (command) to, that.
de : (prep. + abl.) down from, from, concerning, about.
quasi : as if, just as, just as if, as it were /a sort of.