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Joshua 24:7

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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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23 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיִּצְעֲק֣וּvai.yitz.'a.Kuand they cried outH6817 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
יְהוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
וַיָּ֨שֶׂםvai.Ya.semand he putH7760 →
מַֽאֲפֵ֜לma.'a.FeldarknessH3990 →
בֵּינֵיכֶ֣ם׀bei.nei.Khembetween youH996 →
וּבֵ֣יןu.Veinand betweenH996 →
הַמִּצְרִ֗יםha.mitz.Rimthe EgyptiansH4713 →
וַיָּבֵ֨אvai.ya.Ve'and he broughtH935 →
עָלָ֤יו'a.Lavover itH5921 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הַיָּם֙hai.Yamthe seaH3220 →
וַיְכַסֵּ֔הוּvay.kha.Se.huand it covered itH3680 →
וַתִּרְאֶ֙ינָה֙va.tir.'Ei.nahand they sawH7200 →
עֵינֵיכֶ֔ם'ei.nei.Khemeyes yourH5869 →
אֵ֥ת'et<obj.>H853 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-[that] whichH834 →
עָשִׂ֖יתִי'a.Si.tiI didH6213 →
בְּמִצְרָ֑יִםbe.mitz.Ra.yimin EgyptH4714 →
וַתֵּשְׁב֥וּva.te.she.Vuand you dweltH3427 →
בַמִּדְבָּ֖רva.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057 →
יָמִ֥יםya.MimdaysH3117 →
רַבִּֽים׃ra.BimmanyH7227 →

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Deuteronomy 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?Exodus 14:10As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD.Exodus 14:20so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.Exodus 14:27–28So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.Psalms 95:9–10where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.Exodus 14:31When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.Nehemiah 9:12–21You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.Deuteronomy 1:46For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.Numbers 14:33–34Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.Joshua 5:6For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.Deuteronomy 29:2Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.Exodus 10:23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.Hebrews 3:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.Malachi 1:5You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?Acts 13:17–18The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

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