Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Messagefor Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea — which He dried up before us until we had crossed —
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.Gfor YHWH your Elohim dried up the waters of the Yarden before you until you had crossed, just as YHWH your Elohim did to the Yam-Suf — which He dried up before us until we had crossed —
KJV
King James VersionFor the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
BSB
Berean Standard BibleFor the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
Footnotes
יַם-סוּף (Yam-Suf) literally means 'Sea of Reeds' (סוּף = reeds or rushes — the same word used in Exod. 2:3 for the basket holding the infant Moshe). The rendering 'Red Sea' derives from the LXX's erythra thalassa and has no basis in the Hebrew. The theological force here is explicit: the Yarden crossing is a second Yam-Suf event, framing Israel's entire wilderness journey between two miraculous crossings of water. Note the shift in pronoun: 'before you' (Yarden, present generation) becomes 'before us' (Yam-Suf, ancestral memory) — Joshua draws the current assembly into solidarity with the generation of the Exodus. FOG preserves 'Yam-Suf'; FOG Message uses the traditional 'Red Sea.'