New International Version
The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.

New Living Translation
They crept back into the town that day as though they were ashamed and had deserted in battle.

English Standard Version
And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

Berean Study Bible
So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.

New American Standard Bible
So the people went by stealth into the city that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle.

King James Bible
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Christian Standard Bible
So they returned to the city quietly that day like troops come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.

Contemporary English Version
The troops were sneaking into Mahanaim, just as if they had run away from a battle and were ashamed.

Good News Translation
They went back into the city quietly, like soldiers who are ashamed because they are running away from battle.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So they returned to the city quietly that day like people come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.

International Standard Version
So men snuck into the city that day like men do who are ashamed after they've run away from a battle.

NET Bible
That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

New Heart English Bible
The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That day the troops sneaked into the city as if they had fled from battle and were ashamed of it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

New American Standard 1977
So the people went by stealth into the city that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle.

Jubilee Bible 2000
And the people entered by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

King James 2000 Bible
And the people stole back that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

American King James Version
And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

American Standard Version
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the battle.

Darby Bible Translation
And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle.

English Revised Version
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the people withdrew by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

World English Bible
The people snuck into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Young's Literal Translation
And the people stealeth away, on that day, to go in to the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;