14:1But the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: "Speak to the sons of Israel: 'Having turned back, let them encamp opposite Pi-hahiroth, which is between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: in sight of it you will pitch camp by the sea.' 14:3And Pharaoh is going to say about the sons of Israel: 'They are hemmed in in the land; 14:3the desert has shut them in.' 14:4And I will harden his heart, and he will pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his army; 14:4and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord." 14:4And they did so. 14:5And it was reported to the king of the Egyptians that the people had fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed about the people, and they said: "What did we want to do, that we let Israel go, so that it should not serve us?"
14:6So he yoked his chariot, and took all his people with him. 14:7And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and whatever of chariots there was in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army. 14:8And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he pursued the sons of Israel: but they had gone out with a high hand. 14:9And when the Egyptians were pursuing the tracks of those going before, they found them in camp by the sea: all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharaoh, and the whole army, were in Pi-hahiroth over against Baal-zephon. 14:10And when Pharaoh had drawn near, the sons of Israel, lifting their eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them, and were greatly afraid: and they cried out to the Lord, and said to Moses: "Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore you have taken us away to die in the wilderness: why did you want to do this, to lead us out of Egypt?
14:12Is not this the speech which we were speaking to you in Egypt, saying: 'Withdraw from us, so that we may serve the Egyptians'? 14:12For it was much better to serve them than to die in the wilderness." 14:13And Moses said to the people: "Do not be afraid: stand, and see the great works of the Lord which he is going to do today: for the Egyptians, whom you now see, you will by no means see any more for ever. 14:14The Lord will fight for you, and you will be silent." 14:15And the Lord said to Moses: "Why do you cry out to me? 14:15Speak to the sons of Israel that they set out.
14:16But you, lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: so that the sons of Israel may walk in the middle of the sea over dry ground. 14:17But I will harden the heart of the Egyptians so that they pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his army, and in his chariots and in his horsemen. 14:18And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I have been glorified in Pharaoh, and in his chariots and in his horsemen." 14:19And the angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, taking himself up, went away behind them: and together with him the pillar of cloud, leaving the front, stood behind their back, between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel: and the cloud was dark, and lighting up the night, so that they were not able to come near to one another for the whole time of the night.
14:21And when Moses had stretched out his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away, a violent and burning wind blowing the whole night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided. 14:22And the sons of Israel went in through the middle of the dried sea: for the water was like a wall on their right and left. 14:23And the Egyptians, pursuing, went in after them, and all the cavalry of Pharaoh, his chariots and horsemen, through the middle of the sea. 14:24And already the morning watch had come, and look, the Lord, looking down upon the camp of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, slew their army, and overturned the wheels of the chariots, and they were borne into the deep.
14:25So the Egyptians said: "Let us flee from Israel: for the Lord fights for them against us." 14:26And the Lord said to Moses: "Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may return upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and horsemen." 14:27And when Moses had stretched out his hand towards the sea, it returned at first light to its former place: and the waters met the Egyptians as they fled, and the Lord wrapped them up in the middle of the waves. 14:28And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and horsemen of the whole army of Pharaoh, who, following, had gone into the sea: not even one of them survived.
14:29But the sons of Israel went on through the middle of the dried sea, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right and on the left: and the Lord freed Israel on that day from the hand of the Egyptians. 14:31And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the shore of the sea, and the great hand which the Lord had exercised against them: and the people feared the Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.