Joshua 24:5

Hebrew Bible
4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. 5 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land. Then I brought you out. 6 When I brought your fathers out of Egypt, you arrived at the sea. The Egyptians chased your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates) Source

LXX Joshua 24:5

Septuagint
4 and Isaac, Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the mountain of Seir for him to inherit, and Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt and became there as a great nation, many and strong, and the Egyptians afflicted them. 5 And he struck Egypt by what he did to them, and after this he brought 6 our fathers out from Egypt. And you went into the Red Sea, and the Egyptians closely pursued after our fathers in chariots and on horses into the Red Sea.
Date: 2nd Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates) Source

Notes and References

"... The minus in the LXX version of Joshua 24:5, where the reference to Moses and Aaron is absent, furthers the link between Joshua 24 and the Unheilsgeschichte that follows, and at the same time disassociates it with the preceding books, which represents Israel’s Heilsgeschichte, which is represented by the generation of Moses and Aaron ..."
Wildenboer, Johan Joshua 24 in the LXX: Some Literary and Theological Remarks (pp. 483-502) Journal for Semitics 25/2, 2016

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