NIV: As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.
NAS: And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime.
KJV: And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
GWT: The priests are like gangs of robbers who lie in ambush for a person. They murder on the road to Shechem. Certainly, they have committed a crime.
ASV: And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.
BBE: And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
DBY: And as troops of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; yea, they commit lewdness.
DRB: And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.
WBS: And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
WEB: As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
YLT: And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.
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