Other translations
New Catholic Bible
For the fate they deserved urged them on to this decision and made them forget what had already befallen them, so that they might experience the full range of torments required to complete their punishment,
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment that their torments still lacked,
Good News Translation®
While the Egyptians were still mourning at the graves of their dead, they forgot why all this had happened, and they foolishly decided that the people they had begged to leave were runaways. So they chased after them. They were led into this as part of the punishment they deserved, so that they would suffer the rest of the torments they were due to receive.
Wycliffe Bible
For why worthy need led them to this end, and they lost remembering of these things, that had befallen, that punishing should (ful)fill those things, that failed of torments, [Forsooth there led them to that end worthy necessity, and of these things that had fallen, the mind thy lost, that that lacked of torments, punishing should fulfill,]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment which their torments still lacked,
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment that their torments still lacked
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment that their torments still lacked,
Common English Bible © 2011
A fate they fully deserved drew them to this inevitable decision and made them forget about all the things that had so recently happened to them. All this took place so that they might complete the one punishment lacking in their sufferings.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
For a compulsion appropriate to this ending drew them on, and made them forget what had befallen them, That they might complete the torments of their punishment,
Revised Standard Version
For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment which their torments still lacked,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment that their torments still lacked,