Holy Scripture

Joshua 24:3

A church father on this verse
“The Septuagint has translated "And I took your father Abraham from across the river and led him into all the earth." A literal reading of the Hebrew would be "And I led him into the land of Canaan." It is astonishing, therefore, that the translators of the Septuagint would have wished to insert "the whole earth" inste…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — QUESTIONS ON JOSHUA 25

Source: Septuagint

Original

3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and I guided him through all the land, and I multiplied his seed;

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In context

1And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shiloh, and convoked their elders, and their officers, and their judges, and set them before God.

2And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers at first sojourned beyond the river, even Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor; and they served other gods.

— Joshua 24:3 —

4and I gave to him Isaac, and to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir for him to inherit: and Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt, and became there a great and populous and mighty nation: and the Egyptians afflicted them.

5And I smote Egypt with the wonders that I wrought among them.

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