Joshua 2:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹I know that the Lord has given Israel this land. Everyone shakes with fear because of you. ¹⁰^(A) We heard how the Lord dried up the Red Sea^[a] so you could leave Egypt. And we heard how you destroyed Sihon and Og, those two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River. ¹¹We know that the Lord your God rules heaven and earth, and we've lost our courage and our will to fight.

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Footnotes

2.10 Red Sea: Hebrew yam suph, “Sea of Reeds,” one of the marshes or fresh water lakes near the eastern part of the Nile Delta. This identification is based on Exodus 13.17—14.9, which lists the towns on the route of the Israelites before crossing the sea. In the Greek translation of the Scriptures made about 200 b.c., the “Sea of Reeds” was named “Red Sea.”