Joshua 24:6

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.

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סֽוּף

çûwph

H5488

“reed”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 28× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 2:3

Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably of Egyptian origin

TWOT: 1479

reed, rush, water plant - rushes - sea of rushes - of Red Sea - of arms of Red Sea - of Gulf of Suez - of sea from straits to Gulf of Akaba

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

14: words
12: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

סֽוּף reed H5488 occurs in 28 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
9 nouns
1 preposition
1 particle

Verb forms

וָֽאוֹצִ֤יא Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
וַתָּבֹ֖אוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיִּרְדְּפ֨וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ father H1 ×2
הַיָּ֑מָּה sea H3220 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 29 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 27 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Joshua 24:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Acts 7:36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
Hebrews 11:29 By faith, they passed through the Red sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
Exodus 12:37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
Exodus 12:51 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
Exodus 14:1–15 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Nehemiah 9:11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers you did cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Psalms 77:15–20 You have redeemed your people with your arm, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
Psalms 78:13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; He made the waters stand as a heap.

Psalms 136:13–15 To him who divided the Red Sea apart; For his loving kindness endures forever;
Isaiah 63:12–13 who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Micah 6:4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, And redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Joshua 24:6 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וָֽאוֹצִ֤יא אֶת אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם וַתָּבֹ֖אוּ הַיָּ֑מָּה וַיִּרְדְּפ֨וּ מִצְרַ֜יִם אַחֲרֵ֧י אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם בְּרֶ֥כֶב וּבְפָרָשִׁ֖ים יַם סֽוּף

I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Joshua 24:6 Septuagint · lemma form

ἐκ αἴγυπτος καί εἰςἔρχομαι εἰς ὁ θάλασσα ὁ ἐρυθρός καί καταδιώκω ὁ αἰγύπτιος ὀπίσω ὁ πατήρ σύ ἐν ἅρμα καί ἐν ἵππος εἰς ὁ θάλασσα ὁ ἐρυθρός

And afterwards God brought out our fathers from Egypt, and you⌃ entered into the Red Sea; and the Egyptians pursued after our fathers with chariots and horses into the Red Sea.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְאַפְקֵית יַת אֲבָהַתְכוֹן מִמִצְרַיִם וַאֲתֵיתוּן לְיַמָא וּרְדָפוּ מִצְרָאֵי בָּתַר אֲבָהַתְכוֹן בִּרְתִיכִין וּבְפָרָשִׁין לְיַמָא דְסוּף:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Joshua 24:6 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Jos 24:6 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.

Ver. 6. Unto the Red Sea.] Yea, into the Red Sea God made them a fair way till they were in the midst, and then overcovered them. {Jos 24:7}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

24:6 Red Sea: See study note on Exod 13:18.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

6. And I brought your fathers] Comp. Exo_12:37-42; Exo_12:51.

and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers] Astonished that they had not made good their flight into Asia, and deeming them entangled in the land and shut in by the wilderness, the Egyptian monarch directed all his forces, his horses and his chariots, to give chase to the fugitives (Exo_14:9).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And I brought your fathers out of Egypt,.... Which more fully expresses the sense of the last clause of Jos 24:5,

and you came unto the sea; which respects some senior persons then present; for, besides Caleb and Joshua, there were many at this time alive who came to and passed through the Red sea, at their coming out of Egypt; for those whose carcasses fell in the wilderness were such as were mere than twenty years of age at their coming out from Egypt, and who were the murmurers in the wilderness; and it may be reasonably supposed, that many of those who were under twenty years of age at that time were now living:

and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers, with chariots and horsemen, into the Red sea; of the number of their chariots and horsemen, see Exo 14:7; with these they pursued the Israelites, not only unto, but into the Red sea, following them into it; the reason of which strange action is given in Jos 24:7.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

You. Many still survived, and had seen these wonders, as God had only exterminated those who had murmured.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The Pulpit Commentary

Unto the Red Sea. There is no unto in the original. Perhaps the meaning here is into the midst of, the abruptness with which it is introduced meaning more than that the Israelites arrived at it. But though without the He locale, it may be no more than the accusative of motion towards a place.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is çûwph (“reed”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “reed” (çûwph) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Exodus 2:3 shares the word «reed» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“father” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וָֽאוֹצִ֤יא» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 14 Hebrew ↔ 27 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“father” occurs 2× in this single verse.
12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 14 words in this verse.