1And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe and said to him 2“Say to them of the house of Israel, they shall turn and they shall camp on the mouth of Khritha, between Megdol and between the sea, before Baal Tsephon, you will camp by the sea opposite that.” 3And Pharaoh said about the children of Israel: “They are strangers in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.” 4And LORD JEHOVAH said to Moshe, “I shall harden the heart of Pharaoh and he will pursue after them, and I shall be glorified by Pharaoh and by all his army, and the Egyptians shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH”, and they did so.

5And it was told to the King of Egypt that the people themselves were going and the heart of Pharaoh was turned and what they were doing concerning the people and they were saying, “What are we doing that we are sending Israel out from our subjection?” 6And he harnessed his chariots and he took his people with him: 7And he took six hundred chariots that were select and all the Egyptians and men over them all. 8And LORD JEHOVAH hardened the heart of Pharaoh, the King of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel and the children of Israel went out by a high hand. 9And the Egyptians pursued after them and they overtook them when they camped by the sea; every horse of Pharaoh and his chariots and his horsemen and his army were camping on the mouth of Khritha opposite Baal Tsephon.

10And Pharaoh came near and the house of Israel lifted up their eyes, and they saw the Egyptians as they came after them and they were very afraid and the children of Israel prayed before LORD JEHOVAH. 11And they said to Moshe, “Because there are no tombs in Egypt have you led us that we should die in the wilderness? Why have you done so to us and have brought us out from Egypt? 12Was this not the answer we were saying to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us that we may work for the Egyptians’, because it was better for us that we may work for the Egyptians than that we should die in this wilderness?”

13And Moshe said to the people, “You shall not be afraid; wait and see the salvation of LORD JEHOVAH that He performs for you today, for as you see the Egyptians today, you will never see them again. 14LORD JEHOVAH will fight for your persons when you will be calm”; and Moshe prayed before LORD JEHOVAH.

15And LORD JEHOVAH said to Moshe, “Why do you pray before me? Say to the house of Israel, ‘We will pick up camp’: 16And you lift your staff and stretch your hand over the sea and divide it, and the children of Israel shall enter within the sea on dry land. 17And I, behold, I am hardening the heart of the Egyptians that they will enter after them and I shall be glorified by Pharaoh and by all his army, and by his chariots and by his horsemen. 18And the Egyptians shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH when I am glorified by Pharaoh and by all his army and by his chariots and by his horsemen.

19And the Angel of LORD JEHOVAH moved who went before the camp of Israel and he went on from behind them and moved the pillar of cloud from before them and stood behind them: 20And it entered between the camp of the Egyptians and the encampment of Israel, and there was a cloud and darkness all night, and it shone all night to the children of Israel, and they did not approach them all night.

21And Moshe lifted his hand over the sea and LORD JEHOVAH drove the sea back by a mighty hot Simoom wind all night, and he put the sea on land and the waters were divided. 22And the children of Israel entered within the sea by land and the waters were to them as a wall from their right hand and from their left. 23And the Egyptians pursued and all the horses of Pharaoh and his chariots and his horsemen went in after them within the sea. 24And it was at the watch of dawn and LORD JEHOVAH appeared to the encampment of the Egyptians in a pillar of fire and of cloud and he stirred up tumult for the encampment of the Egyptians, 25And he bound the wheels of their chariots and they drove them heavily and the Egyptians were saying, “Let us escape from before of the house of Israel, for LORD JEHOVAH fights war for them with Egypt.

26And LORD JEHOVAH said to Moshe, “Arch your hand over the sea and the waters will return on the Egyptians, on their chariots and upon their horsemen. 27And Moshe lifted his hand over the sea and the sea returned at the time of dawn to its place, and the Egyptians fled against it, and LORD JEHOVAH struck the Egyptians within the sea. 28And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh who went in after them into the sea, and none of them was left, not even one. 29And the children of Israel walked in the sea as on dry land and the waters were to them like a wall on their right hand and on their left.

30And LORD JEHOVAH saved Israel on that day from the hand of the Egyptians and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea. 31And Israel saw the great hand with which LORD JEHOVAH worked on the Egyptians and the people of LORD JEHOVAH were in awe and they believed in LORD JEHOVAH and in Moshe his Servant.