Joshua 22:24
22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that 1 in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? 2
Joshua 24:7
24:7 Your fathers 3 cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, 4 and then drowned them in the sea. 5 You witnessed with your very own eyes 6 what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time. 7
1 tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”
2 tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”
3 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the fathers) has been specified in the translation for clarity (see the previous verse).
4 tn Or “put darkness between you and the Egyptians.”
5 tn Heb “and he brought over them the sea and covered them.”
6 tn Heb “your eyes saw.”
7 tn Heb “many days.”