hen the Pharaoh let the children of Israel go, God led them out of Egypt through the wilderness along the Sea of Reeds. God said to Moses, “You must camp by the sea, so that the Pharaoh will think you are trapped. I will harden his heart, so that he will come after you, and I will use the Pharaoh and his armies to win glory for myself, so that the Egyptians will know Yahweh.”

...the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

God hardened the Pharaoh’s heart, and the Pharaoh took all of his chariots, and his horsemen, and his army, and pursued the children of Israel to the place where they were camped by the sea. When the children of Israel saw the Egyptians coming, they were very afraid, and they said to Moses, “Weren’t there enough graves in Egypt, that you had to take us away to die in the wilderness? It would have been better to stay as servants in Egypt than to die here in the desert.”

But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid—God will save you, and you will never see the Egyptians again.” Moses held his hand out over the sea, and God caused a strong wind to blow all night that blew back the sea, and divided the waters.

And the children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on either side of them. The Egyptians pursued them, and all of the Pharaoh’s chariots and horsemen went into the middle of the sea after them. But God made the wheels fall off their chariots. Then the Egyptians said, “We must run away—Yahweh is fighting for Israel against us.”

But Moses held his hand out over the sea, and the sea flowed back together. The water covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all of Pharaoh’s army. Not one of them survived. So God saved the children of Israel from the Egyptians, and the children of Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.

When they saw the great thing that God had done with the Egyptians, the children of Israel sang and danced to praise God for what he had done.