24:6a
When I brought your fathers out of Egypt: The information in this part of the verse is the same as the information in 24:5. The phrase your fathers refers to the ancestors of the Israelites to whom Joshua was speaking. It may be more natural to include the information out of Egypt in verse 5c and leave that information implicit here.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
When I brought your forefathers out of Egypt
-or-
When I led your ancestors out
24:6b
and you reached the Red Sea: In verses 6 and 7 Joshua sometimes used the term “your fathers” and sometimes used the pronoun you, speaking to the Israelites. In some languages it may not be natural to alternate in this way. In that case, you may choose to refer only to the Israelite ancestors, using the pronoun “they.” For example:
I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and cavalry. But when your ancestors got to the Red Sea they cried out to me for help, and I put darkness between them and the Egyptians. I made the sea come rolling over the Egyptians and drown them. You know what I did to Egypt. (Good News Translation)
the Red Sea: In the Hebrew this was more literally “the sea.” It may be more natural in your language to identify it here as the Red Sea as the Berean Standard Bible did.
Here is another way to translate this part of the verse:
you arrived at the Red Sea
-or-
you came to the sea. (Revised Standard Version)
24:6c
the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea: The term chariots refers to small horse-drawn carts with two wheels. Soldiers of ancient times rode in these carts to go to war. The term horsemen refers to soldiers who were riding on horses.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
The Egyptians pursued your ancestors to the Red Sea with ⌊men driving⌋ in chariots and men riding on horses
-or-
The Egyptian army chased after your ancestors with their war carts and horse riders up to the Red Sea.
© 2001, 2011, 2020, 2022, 2023 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.