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The wilderness has closed in on them.” <span id="v02014004" class="ver">4</span>I will so harden Pharaoh’s heart that he will pursue them. Thus I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p>This the Israelites did. <span id="v02014005" class="ver">5</span><a id="ren02014005-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02014005-b">b</a> When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart about the people. “What in the world have we done!” they said. “We have released Israel from our service!” <span id="v02014006" class="ver">6</span>So Pharaoh harnessed his chariots and took his army with him. <span id="v02014007" class="ver">7</span>He took six hundred select chariots and all the chariots of Egypt, with officers<a id="rfn02014007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02014007-1">*</a> on all of them. <span id="v02014008" class="ver">8</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites while they were going out in triumph. <span id="v02014009" class="ver">9</span>The Egyptians pursued them—all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, his horsemen,<a id="rfn02014009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02014009-1">*</a> and his army—and caught up with them as they lay encamped by the sea, at Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Crossing the Red Sea.</span> <span id="v02014010" class="ver">10</span>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 <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v02014011" class="ver">11</span>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? <span id="v02014012" class="ver">12</span>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.” <span id="v02014013" class="ver">13</span>But Moses answered the people, “Do not fear! Stand your ground and see the victory the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will win for you today. For these Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again. <span id="v02014014" class="ver">14</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will fight for you; you have only to keep still.”</p> <p><span id="v02014015" class="ver">15</span>Then the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses: Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to set out. <span id="v02014016" class="ver">16</span>And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea, and split it in two, that the Israelites may pass through the sea on dry land. <span id="v02014017" class="ver">17</span>But I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots and his horsemen. <span id="v02014018" class="ver">18</span>The Egyptians will know that I am the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, when I receive glory through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.</p> <p><span id="v02014019" class="ver">19</span>The angel of God,<a id="rfn02014019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02014019-1">*</a> who had been leading Israel’s army, now moved and went around behind them. And the column of cloud, moving from in front of them, took up its place behind them, <span id="v02014020" class="ver">20</span>so that it came between the Egyptian army and that of Israel. And when it became dark, the cloud illumined the night; and so the rival camps did not come any closer together all night long.<a id="rfn02014020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02014020-1">*</a> <span id="v02014021" class="ver">21</span><a id="ren02014021-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02014021-c">c</a> Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> drove back the sea with a strong east wind all night long and turned the sea into dry ground. The waters were split, <span id="v02014022" class="ver">22</span>so that the Israelites entered into the midst of the sea on dry land, with the water as a wall to their right and to their left.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Rout of the Egyptians.</span> <span id="v02014023" class="ver">23</span>The Egyptians followed in pursuit after them—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen—into the midst of the sea. <span id="v02014024" class="ver">24</span>But during the watch just before dawn, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> looked down from a column of fiery cloud upon the Egyptian army and threw it into a panic; <span id="v02014025" class="ver">25</span>and he so clogged their chariot wheels that they could drive only with difficulty. With that the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from Israel, because the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> is fighting for them against Egypt.”</p> <p><span id="v02014026" class="ver">26</span>Then the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> spoke to Moses: Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may flow back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and their horsemen. <span id="v02014027" class="ver">27</span>So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal flow. The Egyptians were fleeing head on toward it when the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> cast the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. <span id="v02014028" class="ver">28</span><a id="ren02014028-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02014028-d">d</a> As the water flowed back, it covered the chariots and the horsemen. Of all Pharaoh’s army which had followed the Israelites into the sea, not even one escaped. <span id="v02014029" class="ver">29</span>But the Israelites had walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, with the water as a wall to their right and to their left. <span id="v02014030" class="ver">30</span>Thus the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> saved Israel on that day from the power of Egypt. When Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the seashore <span id="v02014031" class="ver">31</span>and saw the great power that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had shown against Egypt, the people feared the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. They believed in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span><a id="ren02014031-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02014031-e">e</a> and in Moses his servant.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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