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Today's Bible Reading :: Exodus 13 - 15 (ESV)

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Exodus 13

Consecration of the Firstborn

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:1 - The LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2 - “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

(Exo 12:14–20 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the LORD brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:4 - Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:6 - Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:8 - You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:9 - And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:10 - You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:11 - “When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12 - you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the LORD’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:16 - It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

Pillars of Cloud and Fire

(Exo 40:34–38; Num 9:15–23; 1Ki 8:10, 11 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph[fn] had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:21 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:22 - The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
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Samaritan, Septuagint; Hebrew he

Exodus 14

Crossing the Red Sea

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:2 - “Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:4 - And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” And they did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and 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?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:6 - So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:8 - And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9 - The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:10 - When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:14 - The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:15 - The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:16 - Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:17 - And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:18 - And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night[fn] without one coming near the other all night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23 - The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:24 - And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25 - clogging[fn] their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw[fn] the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:28 - The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:31 - Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.
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Septuagint and the night passed
Or binding (compare Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew removing
Hebrew shook off

Exodus 15

The Song of Moses

(Exo 14:13, 14; Psa 78:12–14 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:1 - Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying,
“I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider[fn] he has thrown into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:2 - The LORD is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:3 - The LORD is a man of war;
the LORD is his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:4 - “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea,
and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:5 - The floods covered them;
they went down into the depths like a stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:6 - Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power,
your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:7 - In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:8 - At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the floods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 - The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:10 - You blew with your wind; the sea covered them;
they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:11 - “Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:12 - You stretched out your right hand;
the earth swallowed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:13 - “You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed;
you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:14 - The peoples have heard; they tremble;
pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:15 - Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed;
trembling seizes the leaders of Moab;
all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:16 - Terror and dread fall upon them;
because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone,
till your people, O LORD, pass by,
till the people pass by whom you have purchased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:17 - You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain,
the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode,
the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:18 - The LORD will reign forever and ever.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19 - For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.
(Num 26:59 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:20 - Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21 - And Miriam sang to them:
“Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

Bitter Water Made Sweet

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:24 - And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:25 - And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log,[fn] and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD[fn] made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27 - Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
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Or its chariot; also verse 21
Marah means bitterness
Or tree
Hebrew he
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