Exodus 14

2Speak to the children of Israel and let them turn and encamp on the ground between Magdolus and the sea, from the sheepcot on the one side to Beelsepphon on the other. In front of these thou shalt encamp by the sea;

3whereupon Pharao will say to his people, The Israelites have lost their way in the land for the wilderness hath shut them in.

4And I will make Pharao’s heart stout, so that he will pursue them, and I shall be glorified by Pharao and by all his army. And all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. Accordingly the Israelites did so.

6Therefore Pharao equipped his chariots and took all his people with him.

7And having selected six hundred chosen chariots and all the cavalry of the Egyptians and officers of the highest rank over all

8(for the Lord had emboldened the heart of Pharao king of Egypt and of his attendants) he pursued the Israelites. Though the Israelites had gone out with a high hand,

9yet the Egyptians pursued them with all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharao. And his horsemen and his army found them encamped by the sea with the sheepcot on one flank and Beelsepphon on the other.

10And as Pharao approached; the children of Israel raising their eyes saw the Egyptians encamping in their rear and were greatly terrified. And the Israelites cried to the Lord,

11and said to Moses, Was it because there were no graves in the land of Egypt, that thou hast brought us out to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou dealt thus with us in bringing us out of Egypt?

12Is not this what we told thee in Egypt saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it was better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.

13Whereupon Moses said to the people, Take courage; stand still and see the salvation which cometh from the Lord—which he will work for you this day. For in the manner you have seen the Egyptians this day, you shall never see them again any more.

14The Lord will fight for you. Be ye therefore silent.

16And lift thou up thy staff and stretch forth thy hand over the sea and divide it, and let the children of Israel go into the midst of the sea as on dry ground.

17And behold I will embolden the heart of Pharao and of all the Egyptians and they will go in after them. And I shall be glorified by Pharao and by all his army and by his chariots and by his horses.

18And all the Egyptians shall know, that I am the Lord when I make Myself glorious by Pharao and by his chariots and his horses.

20And when it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and had taken its station; there came on a thick darkness and night intervened so that they did not intermix one with the other during that whole night.

22And the Israelites went into the midst of the sea as on dry ground. And the water thereof was a wall on the right and a wall on the left.

23And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them, even all Pharao’s cavalry and his chariots and charioteers, into the midst of the sea.

24And in the morning watch, the Lord cast a look on the army of the Egyptians with the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw the Egyptian army into confusion,

25and entangled their chariot wheels and caused them to drag on heavily; whereupon the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

27So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and about daybreak the water was brought back to its place. And when the Egyptians were fleeing below the water the Lord shook them off in the midst of the sea;

28and the water being brought back to its place overwhelmed the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharao who had marched after the Israelites into the sea, so that not one of them was left.

29But the Israelites marched on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the water was a wall to them on their right and on their left.

31And when Israel saw that great hand—what the Lord had done to the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord, and they put confidence in God and in Moses His servant.