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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 14
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that
they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before
Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it
by the sea.
3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel,
‘They are entangled in the land. The
wilderness has shut them in.’
4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he
will follow after them; and I will get honor
over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and
the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
5 The king of Egypt was told that the
people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh
and of his servants was changed toward
the people, and they said, “What is this we
have done, that we have let Israel go from
serving us?”
6 He prepared his chariot, and took his
army with him;
7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with
captains over all of them.
8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and he pursued the children
ofIsrael; for the children ofIsrael went out
with a high hand.†
9 The Egyptians pursued them. All the
horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, andhis army
overtook themencamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before
Baal Zephon.
10 When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted
up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after
them; and they were very afraid. The
children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
11 They said to Moses, “Because there
were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us
away to die in the wilderness? Why have
you treated us this way, to bring us out of
Egypt?
12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to
you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that
we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would
have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be
afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of
Yahweh, which he will work for you today;
for you will never again see the Egyptians
whom you have seen today.
14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you
shall be still.”
15 Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you
cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel,
that they go forward.
16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your
hand over the sea and divide it. Then the
children of Israel shall go into the middle
of the sea on dry ground.
17 Behold,I myself will harden the hearts
of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over
Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his
chariots, and over his horsemen.
18 The Egyptians shall know that I am
Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor
over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over
his horsemen.”
19 The angel of God, who went before the
camp of Israel, moved and went behind
them; and the pillar of cloud moved from
before them, and stood behind them.
20 It came between the camp of Egypt
and the camp of Israel. There was the
cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by
night. One didn’t come near the other all
night.
21 Moses stretched out his hand over the
sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back
by a strong east wind all night, and made
the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
22 The children of Israel went into the
middle of the sea on the dry ground; and
the waters were a wall to them on their
right hand and on their left.
23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in
after them into the middle of the sea: all
of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his
horsemen.
24 In the morning watch, Yahweh looked
out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the
Egyptian army.
25 He took off their chariot wheels, and
they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s
flee from the face of Israel,forYahwehfights for themagainstthe
Egyptians!”
26 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out
your hand over the sea, that the waters
may come again on the Egyptians, on their
chariots, and on their horsemen.”
27 Moses stretched out his hand over the
sea, and the sea returned to its strength
when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the
sea.
28 The waters returned, and covered
the chariots and the horsemen, even all
Pharaoh’s army that went in after them
into the sea. There remained not so much
as one of them.
29 But the children of Israel walked on
dry land in the middle of the sea, and the
waters were a wall to them on their right
hand and on their left.
30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out
of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel
saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people
feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
Word English Bible
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