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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 15
1 Then Moses and the children of Israel
sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
“I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
He has thrown the horse and his rider
into the sea.
2 Yah is my strength and song.
He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him;
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 Yahweh is a man of war.
Yahweh is his name.
4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his
army into the sea.
His chosen captains are sunk in the
Red Sea.
5 The deeps cover them.
They went down into the depths like a
stone.
6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in
power.
Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the
enemy in pieces.
7 In the greatness of your excellency,
you overthrow those who rise up
against you.
You send out your wrath. It consumes
them as stubble.
8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters
were piled up.
The floods stood upright as a heap.
The deeps were congealed in the heart
of the sea.
9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will
overtake. I will divide the plunder.
My desire will be satisfied on them.
I will draw my sword. My hand will
destroy them.’
10 You blew with your wind.
The sea covered them.
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the
gods?
Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand.
The earth swallowed them.
13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led
the people that you have redeemed.
You have guided them in your
strength to your holy habitation.
14 The peoples have heard.
They tremble.
Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
Trembling takes hold of the mighty
men of Moab.
All the inhabitants of Canaan have
melted away.
16 Terror and dread falls on them.
By the greatness of your arm they are
as still as a stone,
until your people pass over, Yahweh,
until the people you have purchased
pass over.
17 You will bring them in, and plant
them in the mountain of your inheritance,
the place, Yahweh, which you have
made for yourself to dwell in:
the sanctuary, Lord, which your
hands have established.
18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”
19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in
with his chariots and with his horsemen
into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the
waters of the sea on them; but the children
of Israel walked on dry land in the middle
of the sea.
20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of
Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand;
and all the women went out after her with
tambourines and with dances.
21 Miriam answered them,
“Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed
gloriously.
He has thrown the horse and his rider into
the sea.”
22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red
Sea, and they went out into the wilderness
of Shur; and they went three days in the
wilderness, and found no water.
23 When they came to Marah, they
couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah,
for they were bitter. Therefore its name
was called Marah.†
24 The people murmured against Moses,
saying, “What shall we drink?”
25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh
showed him a tree, and he threw it into the
waters, and the waters were made sweet.
There he made a statute and an ordinance
for them, and there he tested them.
26 He said, “If you will diligently listen
to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do
that which is right in his eyes, and will
pay attention to his commandments, and
keep all his statutes, I will put none of
the diseases on you which I have put on
the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals
you.”
27 They came to Elim, where there were
twelve springs of water and seventy palm
trees. They encamped there by the waters.
15:23 Marah means bitter.
Word English Bible
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