Exodus 14:6

Complete Jewish Bible

So he prepared his chariots and took his people with him —

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;

King James Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Lexham English Bible
And he harnessed his chariot and took with him his people.

New Century Version
So the king prepared his war chariot and took his army with him.

New English Translation
Then he prepared his chariots and took his army with him.

Amplified Bible
So Pharaoh harnessed horses to his war-chariots [for battle] and took his army with him;

New American Standard Bible
So he had horses harnessed to his chariot and took his people with him;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he made ready his charets, and tooke his people with him,

Legacy Standard Bible
So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him;

Contemporary English Version
The king got his war chariot and army ready.

Darby Translation
And he yoked his chariot, and took his people with him.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his men with him.

English Standard Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,

George Lamsa Translation
And he made ready his chariots and took his people with him:

Good News Translation
The king got his war chariot and his army ready.

Christian Standard Bible®
So he got his chariot ready and took his troops with him;

Literal Translation
And he prepared his chariots. And he took his people with him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he bounde his charettes fast, and toke his people wt him,

American Standard Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Bible in Basic English
So he had his war-carriage made ready and took his people with him:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made redy his charette, and toke his people with hym.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him.

King James Version (1611)
And hee made ready his charet, and tooke his people with him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Pharao yoked his chariots, and led off all his people with himself:

English Revised Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Berean Standard Bible
So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Farao ioynede the chare, and took with him al his puple;

Young's Literal Translation
And he harnesseth his chariot, and his people he hath taken with him,

Update Bible Version
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Webster's Bible Translation
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

World English Bible
He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;

New King James Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his people with him.

New Living Translation
So Pharaoh harnessed his chariot and called up his troops.

New Life Bible
So he made his war-wagon ready and took his people with him.

New Revised Standard
So he had his chariot made ready, and took his army with him;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he yoked his chariot, - and his people, took he with him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.

Revised Standard Version
So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him;

Contextual Overview

¹ Adonai said to Moshe, ² "Tell the people of Isra'el to turn around and set up camp in front of Pi-Hachirot, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Ba‘al-Tz'fon; camp opposite it, by the sea. ³ Then Pharaoh will say that the people of Isra'el are wandering aimlessly in the countryside, the desert has closed in on them. ⁴ I will make Pharaoh so hardhearted that he will pursue them; thus I will win glory for myself at the expense of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will realize at last that I am Adonai ." The people did as ordered. ⁵ When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart toward the people. They said, "What have we done, letting Isra'el stop being our slaves?" ⁶ So he prepared his chariots and took his people with him — ⁷ he took 600 first-quality chariots, as well as all the other chariots in Egypt, along with their commanders. ⁸ Adonai made Pharaoh hardhearted, and he pursued the people of Isra'el, as they left boldly. ⁹ (ii) The Egyptians went after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, with his cavalry and army, and overtook them as they were encamped by the sea, by Pi-Hachirot, in front of Ba‘al-Tz'fon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

people: Exodus 14:23, Numbers 21:23, Deuteronomy 2:32, Deuteronomy 3:1

Cross-References

Genesis 14:20
and blessed be El ‘Elyon, who handed your enemies over to you." Avram gave him a tenth of everything.

Genesis 16:7
The angel of Adonai found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur,

Genesis 21:21
He lived in the Pa'ran Desert, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Genesis 36:8
So ‘Esav lived in the hill-country of Se‘ir. (‘Esav is Edom.)

Numbers 10:12
and the people of Isra'el moved out in stages from the Sinai Desert. The cloud stopped in the Pa'ran Desert.

Numbers 12:16
Afterwards, the people went on from Hatzerot and camped in the Pa'ran Desert. Haftarah B'ha‘alotkha: Z'kharyah (Zechariah) 2:14 – 4:7 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'ha‘alotkha: Yochanan (John) 19:31–37; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 3:1–6

Numbers 13:3
Moshe dispatched them from the Pa'ran Desert as Adonai had ordered; all of them were leading men among the people of Isra'el.

Deuteronomy 2:12
In Se‘ir the Horim used to live, but the descendants of ‘Esav dispossessed and destroyed them, settling in their place. Isra'el did similarly in the land it came to possess, which Adonai gave to them.)

Habakkuk 3:3
God comes from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Pa'ran. (Selah) His splendor covers the sky, and his praise fills the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he made ready his chariot,.... Which he usually rode in when he went forth to war; for this seems to be a military chariot, and not for show or grandeur; and this was got ready not by himself, as Jarchi, but rather by his orders, as Aben Ezra:

and took his people with him; the Greek version reads, "all his people"; not all his subjects, but his soldiers; at least a great number, and especially his cavalry.