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The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his charioteers,[a] and his army caught up with them where they were camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, which faces Baal Zephon.

10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them. The Israelites were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you took us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 14:9 At this point of military history, the Hebrew word often translated horsemen very likely refers to chariot crews, not cavalry. It seems cavalry was not common before the Assyrian period.