Exodus 14:10-28

New International Version

¹⁰ As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried^(A) out to the Lord. ¹¹ They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die?^(B) What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? ¹² 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!”^(C)

¹³ Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid.^(D) Stand firm and you will see^(E) the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see^(F) again. ¹⁴ The Lord will fight^(G) for you; you need only to be still.”^(H)

¹⁵ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me?^(I) Tell the Israelites to move on. ¹⁶ Raise your staff^(J) and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water^(K) so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. ¹⁷ I will harden the hearts^(L) of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them.^(M) And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. ¹⁸ The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord^(N) when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”

¹⁹ Then the angel of God,^(O) who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud^(P) also moved from in front and stood behind^(Q) them, ²⁰ coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness^(R) to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.

²¹ Then Moses stretched out his hand^(S) over the sea,^(T) and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind^(U) and turned it into dry land.^(V) The waters were divided,^{(W) 22} and the Israelites went through the sea^(X) on dry ground,^(Y) with a wall^(Z) of water on their right and on their left.

²³ The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen^(AA) followed them into the sea. ²⁴ During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud^(AB) at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.^{(AC) 25} He jammed^[a] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The Lord is fighting^(AD) for them against Egypt.”^(AE)

²⁶ Then the Lord 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.” ²⁷ Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place.^(AF) The Egyptians were fleeing toward^[b] it, and the Lord swept them into the sea.^{(AG) 28} The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea.^(AH) Not one of them survived.^(AI)