Catholic Public Domain Version
"For when they were besieging the city, which was previously called Luz, "
— Judges 1:23, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth–el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)”
“And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el. (Now the name of the city beforetime was Luz.) ”
“The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)”
“When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel(it used to be called Luz),”
“For when they were besieging the city, which before was called Luza,”
“So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)”
“And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth–el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)”
And just as Moses had said, they gave Hebron to Caleb, who destroyed out of it the three sons of Anak.
But the sons of Benjamin did not wipe out the Jebusite inhabitants of Jerusalem. And the Jebusite has lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem, even to the present day.
The house of Joseph also ascended against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
For when they were besieging the city, which was previously called Luz,
they saw a man departing from the city, and they said to him, “Reveal to us the entrance to the city, and we will act with mercy toward you.”
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 having been sent away, he went out to the land of the Hittites, and he built a city there, and he called it Luz. And so it is called, even to the present day.