﻿Exodus.
Chapter 14.
The LORD said to Moses: 
“Tell the Israelites to turn back and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal-zephon. You shall camp facing it, by the sea. 
Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ 
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. I will gain glory over Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” And they did so. 
When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart toward the people and said, “What have we done, letting Israel go from serving us?” 
He harnessed his chariot and took his people with him. 
He took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them. 
The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites, while the Israelites were going out with a raised hand. 
The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s chariot horses, his horsemen, and his army—pursued them and overtook them camped by the sea, near Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon. 
When Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites lifted up their eyes, and there were the Egyptians marching after them. They were very afraid, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD. 
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you took us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? 
Did we not tell you this in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” 
Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians you see today, you shall never see again. 
The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be silent.” 
The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward. 
But you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the midst of the sea on dry ground. 
As for me, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will gain glory over Pharaoh and all his army, over his chariots and his horsemen. 
The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory over Pharaoh, over his chariots and his horsemen.” 
The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them. 
It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was cloud and darkness, yet it lit up the night. Neither camp came near the other all night. 
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind all night. He made the sea dry ground, and the waters were divided. 
The Israelites went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left. 
The Egyptians pursued them and went in after them into the midst of the sea—all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 
During the morning watch, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian camp from the pillar of fire and cloud and threw the Egyptian camp into confusion. 
He removed their chariot wheels and made the chariots move with difficulty. The Egyptians said, “Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD fights for them against Egypt!” 
The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may return over the Egyptians, over their chariots and over their horsemen.” 
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea regained its strength, while the Egyptians were fleeing toward it. The LORD shook the Egyptians off into the midst of the sea. 
The waters returned and covered the chariots and horsemen, all Pharaoh’s army that had followed them into the sea. Not one of them remained. 
But the Israelites had walked on dry ground through the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left. 
That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 
Israel saw the mighty hand with which the LORD had acted against the Egyptians. The people feared the LORD and put their trust in the LORD and in Moses his servant. 
