Exodus 15

Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to God. And they said, saying, “Let me sing to God, for he has triumphantly triumphed; the horse and the one riding it he threw into the sea. \* 2 Yah is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will glorify him, the God of my father, and I will exalt him. 3 God is a man of war; God is his name. \* 4 He threw the chariots of Pharaoh and his army into the sea. And his chosen officers sank in the Sea of Reeds. 5 The deeps cover them; they descended into the depths like a stone. \* 6 Your right hand, God, is majestic in power; your right hand, God, shatters the enemy. 7 And in the abundance of your majesty you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your heat; it devours them like stubble. 8 And by the breath of your nostrils the waters were piled up; the flowing waters were stood upright like a heap; the deeps thickened in the heart of the sea. \* 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake; I will share out the plunder; my soul will be satisfied in them; I will empty my sword; my hand will dispossess them.’ 10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the majestic waters. \* 11 Who is like you among the gods God? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, feared in praises, doing miracles? 12 You reached out your right hand, and the earth swallows them. 13 In your covenant faithfulness, you led this people you redeemed. In your strength, you guided them to the home of your holiness. \* 14 The peoples heard; they shake; anguish seized the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then the chiefs of Edom panicked; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. 16 Terror and dread fall on them. \* By the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone until your people pass by, God, until this people you acquired pass by. 17 You will bring them, and you will plant them on the mountain of your possession, the place, God, that you made for your dwelling, the holy place, my Lord, that your hands built. 18 God will reign forever and ever.” \*

For the horse of Pharaoh went with his chariots and horsemen into the sea. And God returned upon them the waters of the sea. And the sons of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.

And Miriam responded to them: “Sing to God, for he has triumphed triumphantly; the horse and the one riding it he threw into the sea.” \*

And Moses caused Israel to set out from the Sea of Reeds. And they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they traveled for three days into the wilderness, and they found no water.

And they came to Marah, and they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. So he called its name Marah. \*

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What can we drink?”

And he cried out to God, and God showed him a tree. And he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he gave him a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested him.

And he said, “If you carefully listen to the voice of God your God, and you do what is right in his eyes, and you give ear to his commands and you keep all of his laws, all of the diseases that I put on the Egyptians I shall not put on you, for I am God your healer.” \*

And they came to Elim, and there were 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees there. And they camped there by the water. \*