[1] And the Lord said to Moses, [2] Give orders to the children of Israel
to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and
the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your
tents by the sea. [3] And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They
are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land. [4]
And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I
will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may
see that I am the Lord. And they did so. [5] And word came to Pharaoh of
the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants
about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so
that they will do no more work for us? [6] So he had his war-carriage made
ready and took his people with him: [7] And he took six hundred carriages,
all the carriages of Egypt, and captains over all of them. [8] And the Lord
made the heart of Pharaoh hard, and he went after the children of Israel:
for the children of Israel had gone out without fear. [9] But the Egyptians
went after them, all the horses and carriages of Pharaoh, and his horsemen,
and his army, and overtook them in their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth,
before Baal-zephon. [10] And when Pharaoh came near, the children of
Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and
were full of fear; and their cry went up to God. [11] And they said to
Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have
taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us
out of Egypt? [12] Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are,
working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the
Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land. [13] But Moses said,
Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the
Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you
will never see again. [14] The Lord will make war for you, you have only to
keep quiet. [15] And the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me?
give the children of Israel the order to go forward. [16] And let your rod
be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it will be
parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry land. [17]
And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after
them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his
war-carriages, and his horsemen. [18] And the Egyptians will see that I am
the Lord, when I get honour over Pharaoh and his war-carriages and his
horsemen. [19] Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of
Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from
before them, came to rest at their back: [20] And it came between the army
of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them,
and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the
other all the night. [21] And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the
sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and
the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land. [22] And the
children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a
wall on their right side and on their left. [23] Then the Egyptians went
after them into the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses and his
war-carriages and his horsemen. [24] And in the morning watch, the Lord,
looking out on the armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and
cloud, sent trouble on the army of the Egyptians; [25] And made the wheels
of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so
the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for
the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians. [26] And the Lord said
to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the waters will
come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their
horsemen. [27] And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn
the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the
Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. [28] And
the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all
the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not
one of them was to be seen. [29] But the children of Israel went through
the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side
and on their left. [30] So that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the
hands of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea's
edge. [31] And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against
the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had
faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
