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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; he has hurled both horse and rider into the sea. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The LORD is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him— my father’s God, and I will exalt him! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The LORD is a warrior; Yahweh is his name! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Pharaoh’s chariots and army he has hurled into the sea. The finest of Pharaoh’s officers are drowned in the Red Sea. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The deep waters gushed over them; they sank to the bottom like a stone. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6“Your right hand, O LORD, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O LORD, smashes the enemy. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7In the greatness of your majesty, you overthrow those who rise against you. You unleash your blazing fury; it consumes them like straw. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8At the blast of your breath, the waters piled up! The surging waters stood straight like a wall; in the heart of the sea the deep waters became hard. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’ |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“Who is like you among the gods, O LORD— glorious in holiness, awesome in splendor, performing great wonders? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You raised your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“With your unfailing love you lead the people you have redeemed. In your might, you guide them to your sacred home. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The peoples hear and tremble; anguish grips those who live in Philistia. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The leaders of Edom are terrified; the nobles of Moab tremble. All who live in Canaan melt away; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16terror and dread fall upon them. The power of your arm makes them lifeless as stone until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people you purchased pass by. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain— the place, O LORD, reserved for your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The LORD will reign forever and ever!” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19When Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and charioteers rushed into the sea, the LORD brought the water crashing down on them. But the people of Israel had walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine and led all the women as they played their tambourines and danced. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And Miriam sang this song: “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; he has hurled both horse and rider into the sea.” Bitter Water at Marah |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the desert of Shur. They traveled in this desert for three days without finding any water. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah (which means “bitter”). |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then the people complained and turned against Moses. “What are we going to drink?” they demanded. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink. It was there at Marah that the LORD set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.” |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27After leaving Marah, the Israelites traveled on to the oasis of Elim, where they found twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the water. |
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