Exodus 14

¹And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

²Speak to the children of Israel: Let them return and camp over against Phihahiroth which is between Magdal and the sea against Beelsephon: in the sight thereof you shall camp upon the sea.

³And Pharao will say concerning the children of Israel: They are straightened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.

⁴And I will indurate his heart, and he will pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Ægyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

⁵And it was told the king of Ægyptians that the people was fled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed toward the people, & they said: What meant we to do, that we dismissed Israel from serving us?

⁶Therefore he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.

⁷And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that were in Ægypt, and Captains of the whole army.

⁸And our Lord hardened Pharao's heart the king of Ægypt, & he pursued the children of Israel: but they went forth in a mighty hand.

⁹And when the Ægyptians pursued their steps going before, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao's horse and chariots, & the whole army were in Phihahiroth against Beelsephon.

¹⁰And when Pharao approached, the children of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Ægyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and cried to our Lord.

¹¹and said to Moyses: Perhaps there were no graves in Ægypt, therefore thou hast taken us thence to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, in bringing us out of Ægypt?

¹²Is not this the word that we spake to thee in Ægypt, saying: Depart from us, that we may serve the Ægyptians? For it was much better to serve them, than to die in the wilderness.

¹³And Moyses said to the people: Fear not; stand, and see the great wonders of our Lord that he will do this day: for the Ægyptians, whom now you see, you shall no more see for ever.

¹⁴Our Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.

¹⁵And our Lord said to Moyses: Why cryest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel that they go forward.

¹⁶But thou lift up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand upon the sea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go in the midst of the sea by dry ground.

¹⁷And I will indurate the heart of the Ægyptians to pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.

¹⁸And the Ægyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in his chariots and in his horsemen.

¹⁹And the Angel of God that went before the camp of Israel, removing himself, went behind them: & together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the forward,

²⁰stood behind, between the Ægyptians' camp & the camp of Israel: & it was a dark cloud, & lightening the night, so that they could not come to each other the whole night time.

²¹And when Moyses had stretched forth his hand upon the sea, our Lord took it away, a vehement and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.

²²And the children of Israel went through the midst of the dry sea: for the water was as it were a wall on their right hand and their left.

²³And the Ægyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao's horses, his chariots and horsemen through the midst of the sea.

²⁴And now the morning watch was come, and behold our Lord looking upon the Ægyptians' camp through the pillar of fire and the cloud, slew their army:

²⁵and overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were borne into the depth. The Ægyptians therefore said: Let us fly from Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against us.

²⁶And our Lord said to Moyses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the sea, that the waters may return to the Ægyptians upon their chariots and horsemen.

²⁷And when Moyses had stretched forth his hand against the sea, it returned in the first break of day to the former place: and the Ægyptians flying away, the waters came upon them, and our Lord enwrapt them in the midst of the waves.

²⁸And the waters returned, and overwhelmed the chariots & the horsemen of all Pharao's army, who following were entered into the sea, neither did there so much as one of them remain.

²⁹But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the dry sea, and the waters were unto them as instead of a wall on the right hand and on the left:

³⁰& our Lord delivered Israel in that day out of the hand of the Ægyptians.

³¹And they saw the Ægyptians dead upon the sea shore, & the mighty hand that our Lord had exercised against them: & the people feared our Lord, and they believed our Lord, and Moyses his servant.