They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, βThe Israelites are running away from us as they did before.β So as we flee from them,
KJV
(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
ASV
and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;