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Exodus 14 :: New International Version (NIV)

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:2 - “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:3 - Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:4 - And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So the Israelites did this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:7 - He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:8 - The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:9 - The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen[fn] and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:10 - As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:12 - Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:14 - The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:15 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:16 - Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:18 - The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:20 - coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:22 - and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23 - The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:24 - During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25 - He jammed[fn] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward[fn] it, and the LORD swept them into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:28 - The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:31 - And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
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Or charioteers; also in verses 17, 18, 23, 26 and 28
See Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text removed
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