²⁷ For I already know how rebellious and stiff-necked you will be. Why, even now, while I am alive among you, you have been rebels against the Lord! How much more, then, after I am dead!^(A)

Crossing the Red Sea. ¹⁰ Now Pharaoh was near when the Israelites looked up and saw that the Egyptians had set out after them. Greatly frightened, the Israelites cried out to the Lord. ¹¹ To Moses they said, “Were there no burial places in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? ¹² Did we not tell you this in Egypt, when we said, ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? Far better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” ¹³ But Moses answered the people, “Do not fear! Stand your ground and see the victory the Lord will win for you today. For these Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again. ¹⁴ The Lord will fight for you; you have only to keep still.”

¹⁵ because they have done what is evil in my sight and provoked me from the day their ancestors came forth from Egypt until this very day.”

²⁵ From the day that your ancestors left the land of Egypt even to this day, I kept on sending all my servants the prophets to you.^{(A) 26} Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.^(B)