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Joshua 24:7

And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

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KJV King James Version

And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

WEB World English Bible

When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.

ASV American Standard Version

And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

and they cry unto Jehovah, and He setteth thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and bringeth on them the sea, and covereth them, and your eyes see that which I have done in Egypt; and ye dwell in a wilderness many days.

Surrounding context — Joshua 24

4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:

10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.

וַיִּצְעֲק֣וּH6817 · tsa.aqto cry אֶל־H413 · elto(wards)יְהוָ֗הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORD וַיָּ֨שֶׂםH7760 · sumto set: make מַֽאֲפֵ֜לH3990 · ma.a.pheldarkness בֵּינֵיכֶ֣ם׀H996 · ba.yinbetween וּבֵ֣יןH996 · ba.yinbetween הַמִּצְרִ֗יםH4713 · mits.riEgyptian וַיָּבֵ֨אH935 · boto come (in): come עָלָ֤יוH5921 · alupon אֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַיָּם֙H3220 · yamsea וַיְכַסֵּ֔הוּH3680 · ka.sahto cover וַתִּרְאֶ֙ינָה֙H7200 · ra.ahto see: see עֵינֵיכֶ֔םH5869 · a.yineye אֵ֥תH853 · et[Obj.]אֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhich עָשִׂ֖יתִיH6213 · a.sahto make: do בְּמִצְרָ֑יִםH4714 · mits.ra.yimEgypt וַתֵּשְׁב֥וּH3427 · ya.shavto dwell בַמִּדְבָּ֖רH4057 · mid.barmouth יָמִ֥יםH3117 · yomday רַבִּֽים׃H7227 · ravmany

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?Exodus 14:20And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness [to them], but it gave light by night [to these]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.Exodus 14:10And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.Psalm 95:9-10When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.Exodus 14:31And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.Nehemiah 9:12-21Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.Exodus 14:27-28And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.Numbers 14:33-34And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.Deuteronomy 29:2And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;Deuteronomy 1:46So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode [there].Joshua 5:6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.Acts 13:17-18The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.Hebrews 3:17But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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