Exodus 14:3

In 11 translations

BSB

For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’

KJV

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

WEB

Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’

ASV

And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

LSV

and Pharaoh has said of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut on them;

YLT

and Pharaoh hath said of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut upon them;

DBY

And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has hemmed them in.

DRC

And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.

GNV

For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are tangled in the land: the wildernesse hath shut them in.

JPS

And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

LXXE

And Pharao will say to his people, As for these children of Israel, they are wandering in the land, for the wilderness has shut them in.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְאָמַ֤ר פַּרְעֹה֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְבֻכִ֥ים הֵ֖ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ סָגַ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐρεῖ Φαραὼ τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ, οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ πλανῶνται οὗτοι ἐν τῇ γῇ, συγκέκλεικε γὰρ αὐτοὺς ἡ ἔρημος.

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• Crossing the Red Sea (and did the Exodus happen?) Israel fears death, trapped between the sea and Pharaoh's army; Moses urges trust in the LORD, and God commands an advance. An east wind dri…

Cross-references most cited first

• Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
• Psalms 139:4Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
• Ezekiel 38:17This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
• 1 Samuel 23:23Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
• Psalms 71:11saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
• 1 Samuel 23:7When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
• Ezekiel 38:10–11This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people…
• Exodus 7:3–4But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the…
• Jeremiah 20:10–11For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our…
• Deuteronomy 31:21And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring…
• Psalms 3:2Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah
• Psalms 139:2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
• Judges 16:2When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

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