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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/exodus/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the <span class="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 Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’ <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. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>.” So the Israelites did this.</p> <p class="reg"><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, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with 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>The <span class="name">Lord</span> hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or charioteers; also in verses 17, 18, 23, 26 and 28">a</a></sup></span> and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the <span class="name">Lord</span> will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will fight for you; you need only to be still.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The Egyptians will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span> when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.</p> <p class="reg"><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 all that night the <span class="name">Lord</span> drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>During the last watch of the night the <span class="name">Lord</span> looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He jammed <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="See Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text removed">b</a></sup></span> the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The <span class="name">Lord</span> is fighting for them against Egypt.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or from">c</a></sup></span> it, and the <span class="name">Lord</span> swept them into the sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>That day the <span class="name">Lord</span> saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/14-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the <span class="name">Lord</span> displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the <span class="name">Lord</span> and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>charioteers</i>; also in verses 17, 18, 23, 26 and 28</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot">See Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text <i>removed</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>from</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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