Mar.
4
Exodus
14
Exo
14:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Exo
14:2 "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.
Exo
14:3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled
in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
Exo
14:4 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.
Exo
14:5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the
heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people,
and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let
Israel go from serving us?"
Exo
14:6 He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;
Exo
14:7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots
of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
Exo
14:8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he
pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went
out with a high hand.
Exo
14:9 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots
of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping
by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
Exo
14:10 When Pharaoh drew 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.
Exo
14:11 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 forth out of Egypt?
Exo
14:12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying,
'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better
for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the
wilderness."
Exo
14:13 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 the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them
again.
Exo
14:14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."
Exo
14:15 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the
children of Israel, that they go forward.
Exo
14:16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and
divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the
sea on dry ground.
Exo
14:17 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they
shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and
over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
Exo
14:18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten
myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."
Exo
14:19 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.
Exo
14:20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and
there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and
the one didn't come near the other all the night.
Exo
14:21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused
the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the
sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exo
14:22 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the
dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand,
and on their left.
Exo
14:23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst
of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exo
14:24 It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on
the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and
confused the Egyptian army.
Exo
14:25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily;
so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel,
for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"
Exo
14:26 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."
Exo
14:27 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 midst of the
sea.
Exo
14:28 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.
Exo
14:29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of
the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and
on their left.
Exo
14:30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
Exo
14:31 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.