Exodus 14:1-9 ▼

1 Then the LORD said to Moses,

2 |Tell the Israelites to go back and set up their camp facing Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. Set up your camp facing north-by the sea.

3 Pharaoh will think, 'The Israelites are [just] wandering around. The desert is blocking their escape.'

4 I will make Pharaoh so stubborn that he will pursue them. Then, because of what I do to Pharaoh and his entire army, I will receive honor, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.| So that is what the Israelites did.

5 When Pharaoh (the king of Egypt) was told that the people had fled, he and his officials changed their minds about them. They said, |What have we done? We've lost our slaves because we've let Israel go.|

6 So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him.

7 He took 600 of his best chariots as well as all the other chariots in Egypt, placing an officer in each of them.

8 The LORD made Pharaoh (the king of Egypt) so stubborn that he pursued the Israelites, who were boldly leaving Egypt.

9 The Egyptians pursued the Israelites. Pharaoh's army, including all his horse-drawn chariots and cavalry, caught up with them as they were setting up their camp by the sea at Pi Hahiroth facing north.