Exodus 14

1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,Cross-references: Ex 12:1 · Ex 13:1

2“Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.Cross-references: Ex 13:17 · Ex 14:9 · Num 33:7 · Jer 44:1 · Jer 46:14 · Ezek 29:10

3Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’Cross-references: Ex 7:3 · Deut 31:21 · Judg 16:2 · 1Sam 23:7 · 1Sam 23:23 · Ps 3:2 · +7 more

4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 7:3 · Ex 7:5 · Ex 7:13 · Ex 7:17 · Ex 9:16 · +15 more

5The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”Cross-references: Ex 12:33 · Ps 105:25 · Jer 34:10 · Luke 11:24 · 2Pet 2:20

6He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;

7and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.Cross-references: Ex 14:23 · Ex 15:4 · Josh 17:16 · Judg 4:3 · Judg 4:15 · Ps 20:7 · +2 more

8Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.Cross-references: Ex 6:1 · Ex 13:9 · Ex 13:16 · Ex 13:18 · Ex 14:4 · Num 33:3 · +4 more

9The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.Cross-references: Ex 14:2 · Ex 15:9 · Josh 24:6

10When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.Cross-references: Josh 24:7 · 2Chr 18:31 · Neh 9:9 · Ps 34:17 · Ps 53:5 · Ps 106:44 · +12 more

11They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?Cross-references: Gen 43:6 · Ex 5:22 · Ex 15:23 · Ex 16:2 · Ex 17:2 · Num 11:1 · +4 more

12Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”Cross-references: Ex 3:9 · Ex 5:21 · Ex 6:9 · Hos 4:17 · Jonah 4:3 · Jonah 4:8 · +3 more

13Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Gen 49:18 · Ex 14:30 · Ex 15:1 · Num 14:9 · Deut 20:3 · +20 more

14Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”Cross-references: Ex 14:25 · Ex 15:3 · Deut 1:30 · Deut 3:22 · Deut 20:4 · Josh 10:10 · +12 more

15Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.Cross-references: Ex 17:4 · Josh 7:10 · Ezra 10:4 · Neh 9:9

16Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.Cross-references: Ex 4:2 · Ex 4:17 · Ex 4:20 · Ex 7:9 · Ex 7:19 · Ex 14:21 · +4 more

17Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.Cross-references: Gen 6:17 · Gen 9:9 · Ex 4:23 · Ex 7:3 · Ex 7:13 · Ex 14:4 · +11 more

18The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”Cross-references: Ex 7:5 · Ex 7:17 · Ex 14:4

19The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Ex 14:24 · Ex 23:20 · Ex 32:34 · Num 20:16 · Isa 63:9

20It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.Cross-references: Ps 18:11 · Prov 4:18 · Isa 8:14 · 2Cor 2:15

21Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.Cross-references: Ex 14:16 · Ex 15:8 · Josh 3:13 · Josh 4:23 · Neh 9:11 · Job 26:12 · +9 more

22The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.Cross-references: Ex 14:29 · Ex 15:8 · Ex 15:19 · Num 33:8 · Neh 9:11 · Ps 66:6 · +6 more

23The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.Cross-references: Ex 14:17 · Ex 15:9 · Ex 15:19 · 1Ki 22:20 · Eccl 9:3 · Isa 14:24

24In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Ex 14:19 · Ex 14:25 · 1Sam 11:11 · Job 22:13 · Job 23:15 · +7 more

25He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”Cross-references: Ex 14:14 · Deut 3:22 · Judg 4:15 · 1Sam 4:7 · Job 11:20 · Job 20:24 · +8 more

26Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”Cross-references: Ex 1:22 · Ex 7:19 · Ex 8:5 · Ex 14:16 · Judg 1:6 · Matt 7:2 · +3 more

27Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.Cross-references: Ex 14:21 · Ex 15:1 · Deut 11:4 · Josh 4:18 · Judg 5:20 · Ps 78:53 · +1 more

28The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · Ex 15:10 · Deut 11:4 · 2Chr 20:24 · Neh 9:11 · Ps 78:53 · +5 more

29But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.Cross-references: Ex 14:22 · Josh 3:16 · Job 38:8 · Ps 66:6 · Ps 77:19 · Ps 78:52 · +4 more

30Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · 1Sam 14:23 · 2Chr 32:22 · Ps 58:10 · Ps 59:10 · Ps 91:8 · +5 more

31Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.Cross-references: Ex 4:31 · Ex 19:9 · 1Sam 12:18 · 2Chr 20:20 · Ps 106:12 · Ps 119:120 · +6 more