Exodus 14
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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- Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and
encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against
Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.
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- For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are
entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
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- And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow
after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that
the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
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- And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled:
and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people,
and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from
serving us?
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- And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with
him:
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- And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the
chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
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- And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of
Israel went out with an high hand.
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- But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and
chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.
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- And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel
lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and
they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
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- And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves
in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast
thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
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- Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt,
saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been
better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the
wilderness.
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- And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand
still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day:
for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more
for ever.
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- The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your
peace.
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- And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto
me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
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- But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand
over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry
ground through the midst of the sea.
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- And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
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- And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I
have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen.
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- And the angel of God, which went before the camp of
Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from
before their face, and stood behind them:
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- And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the
camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light
by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
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- And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the
LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and
made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
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- And the children of Israel went into the midst of the
sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right
hand, and on their left.
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- And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the
midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
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- And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD
looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the
cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
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- And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them
heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel;
for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
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- And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand
over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their
chariots, and upon their horsemen.
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- And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the
sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians
fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea.
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- And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and
the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them;
there remained not so much as one of them.
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- But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the
midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand,
and on their left.
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- Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of
the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
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- And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon
the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and
his servant Moses.
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