But he, casting off the linen cloth, fled from them naked.

but he, leaving the linen cloth behind him, fled from them naked.

and he, having left the linen cloth, did flee from them naked.

but he left the linen cloth in their hands and fled without it.

But he got away unclothed, without the linen cloth.

But he, rejecting the fine linen cloth, escaped from them naked.

but he left the sheet in their hands, and fled naked.

And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked - It has often been intimated, by the inhabitants of India, that a European in strait clothes must be in great danger when his clothes take fire. From their loose clothing they can suddenly disengage themselves. When two Hindoos are engaged in a violent quarrel, and one seizes the clothing of the other, often the latter will leave his clothes in the hands of his opponent, and flee away naked. This seems to have been the case with the person mentioned above. See Ward's Customs.

And he left the linen cloth,.... "In their hands", so the Persic version renders it; just as Joseph left his garment in the hands of his mistress, Genesis 39:12;
and fled from them naked; to the house from whence he came. The Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, leave out the words "from them".