New Revised Standard Version
All Israel around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth will swallow us too!”

Contemporary English Version
The rest of the Israelites heard their screams, so they ran off, shouting, "We don't want that to happen to us!"

New American Bible
But all the Israelites near them fled at their shrieks, saying, “The earth might swallow us too!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also.

But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also.

fled

Isaiah 33:3 At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the lifting up thyself the nations are scattered.

Zechariah 14:5 And you shall flee to the valley of those mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall be joined even to the next, and you shall flee as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Ozias king of Juda: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.

Revelation 6:15-17 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: . . .

lest

Numbers 17:12,13 And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish. . . .