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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 14 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/13.htm" title="Exodus 13">◄</a> Exodus 14 <a href="../exodus/15.htm" title="Exodus 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Crossing the Red Sea</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.” And they did so.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the Egyptians shall know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint and the night passed">a</a></sup></span> without one coming near the other all night.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And in the morning watch the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>clogging<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or binding (compare Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew removing">b</a></sup></span> their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> fights for them against the Egyptians.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> threw<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew shook off">c</a></sup></span> the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Thus the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Israel saw the great power that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and they believed in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and in his servant Moses.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> Septuagint <i><span class="catch-word">and</span> the night passed</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> Or <i>binding</i> (compare Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew <i>removing</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Hebrew <i>shook off</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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