| 1 | Then the LORD said to Moses, |
| 2 | "Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-ha-hi'roth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Ba'al-ze'phon; you shall encamp over against it, by the sea. |
| 3 | For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, `They are entangled in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.' |
| 4 | And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD." And they did so. |
| 5 | When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and 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 | So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, |
| 7 | and took six hundred picked chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. |
| 8 | And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt and he pursued the people of Israel as they went forth defiantly. |
| 9 | The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-ha-hi'roth, in front of Ba'al-ze'phon. |
| 10 | When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were in great fear. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD; |
| 11 | and they said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, in bringing us out of Egypt? |
| 12 | Is not this what we said to you in Egypt, `Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness." |
| 13 | And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. |
| 14 | The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be still." |
| 15 | The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. |
| 16 | Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go on dry ground through the sea. |
| 17 | And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. |
| 18 | And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen." |
| 19 | Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, |
| 20 | coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed without one coming near the other all night. |
| 21 | Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. |
| 22 | And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. |
| 23 | The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. |
| 24 | And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians, |
| 25 | clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians." |
| 26 | Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen." |
| 27 | So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled into it, and the LORD routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. |
| 28 | The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained. |
| 29 | But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. |
| 30 | Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. |
| 31 | And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did against the Egyptians, and the people feared the LORD; and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses. |
| 1 | Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. |
| 2 | The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. |
| 3 | The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name. |
| 4 | "Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea; and his picked officers are sunk in the Red Sea. |
| 5 | The floods cover them; they went down into the depths like a stone. |
| 6 | Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. |
| 7 | In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble. |
| 8 | At the blast of thy nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. |
| 9 | The enemy said, `I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.' |
| 10 | Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters. |
| 11 | "Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like thee, majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders? |
| 12 | Thou didst stretch out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. |
| 13 | "Thou hast led in thy steadfast love the people whom thou hast redeemed, thou hast guided them by thy strength to thy holy abode. |
| 14 | The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have seized on the inhabitants of Philistia. |
| 15 | Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the leaders of Moab, trembling seizes them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. |
| 16 | Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of thy arm, they are as still as a stone, till thy people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom thou hast purchased. |
| 17 | Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them on thy own mountain, the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thy abode, the sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have established. |
| 18 | The LORD will reign for ever and ever." |
| 19 | For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. |
| 20 | Then Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and dancing. |
| 21 | And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea." |
| 22 | Then Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur; they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. |
| 23 | When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. |
| 24 | And the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" |
| 25 | And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them, |
| 26 | saying, "If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD, your healer." |
| 27 | Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the water. |
| 1 | They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. |
| 2 | And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, |
| 3 | and said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger." |
| 4 | Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or not. |
| 5 | On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily." |
| 6 | So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, "At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, |
| 7 | and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings against the LORD. For what are we, that you murmur against us?" |
| 8 | And Moses said, "When the LORD gives you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your murmurings which you murmur against him -- what are we? Your murmurings are not against us but against the LORD." |
| 9 | And Moses said to Aaron, "Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, `Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings.'" |
| 10 | And as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. |
| 11 | And the LORD said to Moses, |
| 12 | "I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel; say to them, `At twilight you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'" |
| 13 | In the evening quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning dew lay round about the camp. |
| 14 | And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as hoarfrost on the ground. |
| 15 | When the people 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, "It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat. |
| 16 | This is what the LORD has commanded: `Gather of it, every man of you, as much as he can eat; you shall take an omer apiece, according to the number of the persons whom each of you has in his tent.'" |
| 17 | And the people of Israel did so; they gathered, some more, some less. |
| 18 | But when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat. |
| 19 | And Moses said to them, "Let no man leave any of it till the morning." |
| 20 | But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them. |
| 21 | Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted. |
| 22 | On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers apiece; and when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, |
| 23 | he said to them, "This is what the LORD has commanded: `Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay by to be kept till the morning.'" |
| 24 | So they laid it by till the morning, as Moses bade them; and it did not become foul, and there were no worms in it. |
| 25 | Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field. |
| 26 | Six days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is a sabbath, there will be none." |
| 27 | On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. |
| 28 | And the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? |
| 29 | See! The LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days; remain every man of you in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." |
| 30 | So the people rested on the seventh day. |
| 31 | Now the house of Israel called its name manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. |
| 32 | And Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: `Let an omer of it be kept throughout 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.'" |
| 33 | And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations." |
| 34 | As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony, to be kept. |
| 35 | And the people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna, till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. |
| 36 | (An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.) |
