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  14t“So it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall say to him, u‘By strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

  15‘And it came to pass, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that vthe LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all males that open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

  16“It shall be as wa sign on your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

  The Wilderness Way

  (Ex. 40:34–38; Num. 9:15–23; 1 Kin. 8:10, 11)

  17Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people xchange their minds when they see war, and yreturn to Egypt.”

  18So God zled the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.

  19And Moses took the abones of bJoseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel under solemn oath, saying, c“God will surely 5visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.”

  20So dthey took their journey from eSuccoth and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness.

  21And fthe LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.

  22He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people. The Exodus Route

  Exodus 14

  The Red Sea Crossing

  1Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  2“Speak to the children of Israel, athat they turn and camp before bPi Hahiroth, between cMigdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea.

  3“For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, d‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’

  4“Then eI will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that he will pursue them; and I fwill gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, gthat the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD.” And they did so.

  5Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and hthe heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

  6So he 1made ready his chariot and took his people with him.

  7Also, he took isix hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them.

  8And the LORD jhardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and kthe children of Israel went out with boldness.

  9So the lEgyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

  10And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel mcried out to the LORD.

  11nThen they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt?

  12o“Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”

  13And Moses said to the people, p“Do not be afraid. qStand still, and see the rsalvation2 of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall ssee again no more forever.

  14t“The LORD will fight for you, and you shall uhold3 your peace.”

  15And the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.

  16“But vlift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

  17“And I indeed will wharden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will xgain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.

  18“Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

  19And the Angel of God, ywho went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them.

  20So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night.

  21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and zmade the sea into dry land, and the waters were adivided.

  22So bthe children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were ca wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

  23And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

  24Now it came to pass, in the morning dwatch, that ethe LORD looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He 4troubled the army of the Egyptians.

  25And He 5took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD ffights for them against the Egyptians.”

  26Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”

  27And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea greturned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the LORD hoverthrew6 the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

  28Then ithe waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained.

  29But jthe children of Israel had 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.

  30So the LORD ksaved7 Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel lsaw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

  31Thus Israel saw the great 8work which the LORD had done in Egypt; so the people feared the LORD, and mbelieved the LORD and His servant Moses.

  Exodus 15

  The Song of Moses

  (Ex. 14:13, 14; Ps. 78:12–14)

  1Then aMoses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying:

  “I will bsing to the LORD,

  For He has triumphed gloriously!

  The horse and its rider

  He has thrown into the sea!

  2The LORD is my strength and csong,

  And He has become my salvation;

  He is my God, and dI will praise Him;

  My efather’s God, and I fwill exalt Him.

  3The LORD is a man of gwar;

  The LORD is His hname.

  4iPharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;

  jHis chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.

  5The depths have covered them;

  kThey sank to the bottom like a stone.

  6“Your lright hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power;

  Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.

  7And in the greatness of Your mexcellence

  You have overthrown those who rose against You;

  You sent forth nYour wrath;

  It oconsumed them plike stubble.

  8And qwith the blast of Your nostrils

  The waters were gathered together;

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nbsp; rThe floods stood upright like a heap;

  The depths 1congealed in the heart of the sea.

  9sThe enemy said, ‘I will pursue,

  I will overtake,

  I will tdivide the spoil;

  My desire shall be satisfied on them.

  I will draw my sword,

  My hand shall destroy them.’

  10You blew with Your wind,

  The sea covered them;

  They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  11“Whou is like You, O LORD, among the 2gods?

  Who is like You, vglorious in holiness,

  Fearful in wpraises, xdoing wonders?

  12You stretched out Your right hand;

  The earth swallowed them.

  13You in Your mercy have yled forth

  The people whom You have redeemed;

  You have guided them in Your strength

  To zYour holy habitation.

  14“The apeople will hear and be afraid;

  bSorrow3 will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.

  15cThen dthe chiefs of Edom will be dismayed;

  eThe mighty men of Moab,

  Trembling will take hold of them;

  fAll the inhabitants of Canaan will gmelt away.

  16hFear and dread will fall on them;

  By the greatness of Your arm

  They will be ias still as a stone,

  Till Your people pass over, O LORD,

  Till the people pass over

  jWhom You have purchased.

  17You will bring them in and kplant them

  In the lmountain of Your inheritance,

  In the place, O LORD, which You have made

  For Your own dwelling,

  The msanctuary, O LORD, which Your hands have established.

  18“Then LORD shall reign forever and ever.”

  19For the ohorses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and pthe LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them. But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

  The Song of Miriam

  (Num. 26:59)

  20Then Miriam qthe prophetess, rthe sister of Aaron, stook the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her twith timbrels and with dances.

  21And Miriam uanswered them:

  v“Sing to the LORD,

  For He has triumphed gloriously!

  The horse and its rider

  He has thrown into the sea!”

  Bitter Waters Made Sweet

  22So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of wShur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no xwater.

  23Now when they came to yMarah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called 4Marah.

  24And the people zcomplained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

  25So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. aWhen he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He bmade a statute and an 5ordinance for them, and there cHe tested them,

  26and said, d“If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the ediseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD fwho heals you.”

  27gThen they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters.

  Exodus 16

  Bread from Heaven

  1And they ajourneyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and bSinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt.

  2Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel ccomplained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  3And the children of Israel said to them, d“Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, ewhen we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

  4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain fbread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather 1a certain quota every day, that I may gtest them, whether they will hwalk in My law or not.

  5“And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and iit shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”

  6Then Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, j“At evening you shall know that the LORD has brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  7“And in the morning you shall see kthe glory of the LORD; for He lhears your complaints against the LORD. But mwhat are we, that you complain against us?”

  8Also Moses said, “This shall be seen when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; for the LORD hears your complaints which you make against Him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but nagainst the LORD.”

  9Then Moses spoke to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, o‘Come near before the LORD, for He has heard your complaints.’ ”

  10Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD pappeared in the cloud.

  11And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  12q“I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, r‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and sin the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’ ”

  13So it was that tquails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning uthe dew lay all around the camp.

  14And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was va small round wsubstance, as fine as frost on the ground.

  15So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, x“This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

  16“This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: ‘Let every man gather it yaccording to each one’s need, one zomer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.’ ”

  17Then the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less.

  18So when they measured it by omers, ahe who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Every man had gathered according to each one’s need.

  19And Moses said, “Let no one bleave any of it till morning.”

  20Notwithstanding they did not 2heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

  21So they gathered it every morning, every man according to his need. And when the sun became hot, it melted.

  22And so it was, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

  23Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is ca Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’ ”

  24So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not dstink, nor were there any worms in it.

  25Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.

  26e“Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”

  27Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none.

  28And the LORD said to Moses, “How long fdo you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

  29“See! For the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two
days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

  30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  31And the house of Israel called its name 3Manna. And git was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

  32Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

  33And Moses said to Aaron, h“Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.”

  34As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up ibefore the Testimony, to be kept.

  35And the children of Israel jate manna kforty years, luntil they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

  36Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.

  Exodus 17

  Water from the Rock

  (Num. 20:1–13)

  1Then aall the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of bSin, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to cdrink.

  2dTherefore the people contended with Moses, and said, “Give us water, that we may drink.” So Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you etempt the LORD?”

  3And the people thirsted there for water, and the people fcomplained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our glivestock with thirst?”

  4So Moses hcried out to the LORD, saying, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to istone1 me!”

  5And the LORD said to Moses, j“Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which kyou struck the river, and go.

  6l“Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  7So he called the name of the place mMassah2 and 3Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they 4tempted the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”