And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.

And when he had shewn them, they smote the city with the edge of the sword: but that man and all his kindred they let go:

And he showed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

And he sheweth them the entrance of the city, and they smite the city by the mouth of the sword, and the man and all his family they have sent away;

So he made clear to them the way into the town, and they put it to the sword; but they let the man and all his family get away safe.

And when he had revealed it to them, they struck the city with the edge of the sword. But that man, and all his relatives, they released.

And when he showed them the entrance, into the city,.... Pointing to it with his fingers, as the same writers observe:
they smote the city with the edge of the sword; they gave notice of what intelligence they had got to the body of the army, who came up, entered the city, took it, and put the inhabitants of it to the sword, as they were ordered to do with all the Canaanites:
but they let go the man and all his family; who had returned to it, encouraged by the promise made him, and for the sake of saving of his family; which though not expressed, he might have asked the favour of sparing them, which might be promised, as was in the case of Rahab; provided he would either renounce Heathenism, and embrace the true religion, or depart to another country, the latter of which he chose.

His family - Together with his estate, as the following verse manifests.