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21 (A) Moses stretched his arm over the sea, and the Lord sent a strong east wind that blew all night until there was dry land where the water had been. The sea opened up, 22 (B) and the Israelites walked through on dry land with a wall of water on each side.

23 The Egyptian chariots and cavalry went after them. 24 But before daylight the Lord looked down at the Egyptian army from the fiery cloud and made them panic. 25 Their chariot wheels got stuck,[a] and it was hard for them to move. So the Egyptians said to one another, “Let's leave these people alone! The Lord is on their side and is fighting against us.”

26 The Lord told Moses, “Stretch your arm toward the sea—the water will cover the Egyptians and their cavalry and chariots.” 27 Moses stretched out his arm, and at daybreak the water rushed toward the Egyptians. They tried to run away, but the Lord drowned them in the sea. 28 The water came and covered the chariots, the cavalry, and the whole Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them was left alive. 29 But the sea had made a wall of water on each side of the Israelites, so they walked through on dry land.

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Footnotes

  1. 14.25 stuck: The Samaritan Hebrew text and two ancient translations; Hebrew “came off.”

He threw the chariots and army
of Egypt's king[a]
    into the Red Sea,[b]
and he drowned the best
    of the king's officers.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.4 Egypt's king: See the note at 1.11.
  2. 15.4 Red Sea: See the note at 13.18.

They sank to the bottom
    just like stones.

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